David C. Bloom

Venture Catalyst

Greater Detroit Area

Current
  • Principal at Factotem
Past
  • Program Manager at Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest
  • Executive in Residence at Ann Arbor SPARK
  • Chief Innovation Officer at Optimization Group

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Education
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Michigan
  • Oberlin College
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Connections
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Industry
Program Development
Websites

David C. Bloom’s Summary

Coach and Connector: develop high-performance entrepreneurs and executives, from company formation and growth through restructuring and M&A.

Project and Technology Management: direct and execute corporate development projects, coordinate product programs, schedules, and budgets.

Entrepreneurial Focus: produce new programs and business units, recruit and manage new teams, develop new channels and business models.

David C. Bloom’s Specialties:

IT: leadership coaching and team development, outsourcing and procurement, technical due diligence.

IP: ideation and execution, contract development, licensing, and channel development.

IM: integrated marketing, competitive analysis, business intelligence.

Id: creative visioning and opportunitizing.

David C. Bloom’s Experience

  • Principal

    Factotem

    (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

    May 1989 — Present (21 years 3 months)

    Business development, modeling, positioning, valuation, outsourcing, scalability and incubation services.

  • Program Manager

    Great Lakes Entrepreneur's Quest

    (Program Development industry)

    February 2009 — April 2010 (1 year 3 months)

    Community Organizer for statewide entrepreneurship programs

  • Executive in Residence

    Ann Arbor SPARK

    (Program Development industry)

    January 2008 — January 2009 (1 year 1 month)

    Internetworking; coaching and connecting; regional economic development.

  • Chief Innovation Officer

    Optimization Group

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Market Research industry)

    May 2002 — August 2007 (5 years 4 months)

    Development and integration of next-generation research methodologies and brain-hacking tools.

  • Coach

    Factotem

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

    July 2000 — June 2006 (6 years )

    Personal/organizational development, turnaround or transition/intervention coaching for entrepreneurs, executives and senior managers.

  • Chief Information Officer

    Safe Travel LLC

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

    November 2001 — December 2004 (3 years 2 months)

    Systems integration for biometric passenger authentication technologies in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

  • Restaurant Critic

    Ann Arbor Observer

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Writing and Editing industry)

    August 1992 — May 1998 (5 years 10 months)

    Reviewed 130 restaurants. Created Quick Bites, Service Bites, and Food Fight columns.

  • Consultant

    Factotem

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)

    May 1989 — August 1996 (7 years 4 months)

    Clinical practice management for radiation oncology; hospital information systems integration; passive solar gain modeling software; DoD electric utility vehicle R&D.

  • Senior Project Manager

    StorageTek

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    October 1993 — December 1995 (2 years 3 months)

    Terabyte tape-robot filesystem for IBM; ISO-9000 certification; intranet development.

  • Member of Technical Staff

    Open Networks Engineering

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

    August 1989 — September 1993 (4 years 2 months)

    ADAS/AWOS network for FAA; 3x redundant radar network for Hughes/CAATS; DA/DSM network for EPRI; manufacturing automation network for Harris.

  • Network Planning Coordinator

    University of Michigan Medical Center

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

    March 1989 — May 1989 (3 months)

    Information Systems Integration for the Health Sciences, later "ITN"

  • Quality Manager

    Intercomputer Communications Corporation

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

    February 1987 — February 1989 (2 years 1 month)

    InterCom 102, 500/600 and 1000 product lines: Burroughs, Sperry and UNIX terminal emulation and file transfer software.

  • Staff Engineer

    Unisys

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    January 1984 — February 1987 (3 years 2 months)

    Burroughs Corporate Systems Management; B-Mail/SperryLink.

  • Tech Support

    HP

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    April 1983 — August 1983 (5 months)

    Help desk and lab.

  • Engineering Intern

    IBM

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Networking industry)

    April 1982 — August 1982 (5 months)

    PRISM video teleconferencing terminal.

David C. Bloom’s Education

  • University of Michigan

    MSE , Industrial and Operations Engineering , 1984 — 1985

    Activities and Societies:
    Dean's List, Tau Beta Pi

  • University of Michigan

    BSE , Electrical Engineering , January 1982 — December 1983

    Activities and Societies:
    Magna Cum Laude, Eta Kappa Nu

  • Oberlin College

    Music Composition 1979 — 1981

Additional Information

David C. Bloom’s Websites:

David C. Bloom’s Groups:

a2newtech,
Shifting Gears,
Entrepreneur Bootcamp,
Knights of the Marketing Roundtable,
Society of Photonics Industry Engineers,
Pharmaceutical Marketing Research Group,
Institute of Industrial Engineers,
Entrepreneur's Foundation,
One World One Family,
Michigan Pops Choir,
Huron Valley Girl Scouts,
Chelsea Theater Boosters

  •    Factotem Constellation
  •    a2b3 - Ann Arbor Bi Bim Bop
  •    MPowered Entrepreneurship (UofM)
  •    Ann Arbor Marketing Roundtable
  •    Ann Arbor Startup Execs
  •    Lawrence Tech's Leaders & Innovators

David C. Bloom’s Honors:

2010 Judge, American Technology Awards
2009 Mentor of the Year award (Ann Arbor SPARK)
2008 Lawrence Tech/GLITR Leader & Innovator award
2007 Innovation Michigan Award for Business Strategy (OG)
Mentor, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
STC International Award for product documentation (Factotem)
Recognition Award for disaster recovery (StorageTek)
Flying Fish Award for customer relations (ONE)
Exemplary Action Award for process improvement (Unisys)
Cost Effectiveness Award for product design (IBM)

David C. Bloom’s Contact Settings

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  • new ventures
  • expertise requests
  • business deals
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