Dave Maquera

Dave was most recently CEO and Board Member of ecoATM Gazelle, the world’s largest smartphone and tablet recycler by volume. Between roughly 2015 and 2022, Dave took the company from tens of millions in losses to over a hundred million in EBITDA, and from negative equity value to $1 billion enterprise value, in so doing contributing to massively reducing global toxic e-waste and emissions.

Dave was also Chief Strategy Officer at Clearwire, the joint wireless spectrum venture of Google, Comcast, Intel, and Sprint which is now TMobile’s 5G network in the US. Prior to that, he led product and technology at a messaging technology start-up which he co-founded and successfully sold to Qualcomm’s Leap Wireless.

Dave started his civilian career at McKinsey after serving ten years as an officer in the US Navy where he flew fighter jets including combat in Iraq. He is the father of five, a triathlete, mountain biker, and surfer, and has an MBA from Harvard and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.