David Carpe

Principal and Founder at Clew, LLC

Greater Boston Area

Current
  • Program Manager, Office of the CSA at Microsoft Corporation
  • Member, SCIP MAC 2009 at SCIP
  • Principal and Founder at Clew, LLC
Education
  • Babson College
  • The George Washington University
Connections
304 connections
Industry
Management Consulting
Websites

David Carpe’s Summary

David Carpe, Principal and Founder

In addition to providing leadership for Clew, David spends a portion of each week working as a Program Manager for Microsoft Corporation.

Before creating Clew in 2001, David served as Chairman and CEO of everpath, Inc., a venture-backed software and internet services firm. He successfully raised venture financing and defined strategies and goals for the firm. Previously, Dave co-founded and managed Thorn & Graves, a consulting firm catering to emerging market organizations. Earlier, David worked for several years in consulting and research as a principal with a boutique firm. He began his professional career with Fidelity Investments as an Equity Trading Assistant within Fidelity Capital Markets, and later worked as a Research Associate within Fidelity Capital.

David received his BFA from the George Washington University and his MBA from Babson College, where he authored a case on valuation for the Division Chair of Finance. He has also worked as a Volunteer Teacher with the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) through the Citizen's Schools of Boston and continues to participate in Babson's innovative Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork Program (CLTP) program.

David has written extensively in the areas of human resources, research as well as competitive intelligence covering numerous processes, products and opinions. He has provided expert commentary to myriad industry publications ranging from Fortune Magazine, WSJ and the Boston Globe to Wired, CFO and the Sunday NY Times.

Memberships: Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE), Human Capital Institute (Founding Member), Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP), SCIP Partner Program and Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP). David also serves on the board of JigSaw Data Corporation (information brokerage firm in CA) and Conditor, LLC (wireless gaming firm in Boston).

David Carpe’s Specialties:

Clew is a consulting firm that partners with some of the most successful companies in the world. We research and analyze organizations, markets, products, services, plans and people to inform the business decision making process.

Clew supports management disciplines ranging from HR, finance and legal to sales, marketing, operations and general management. We provide comprehensive consulting services that are tailored to fit the unique needs of our clients.


David Carpe’s Experience

  • Program Manager, Office of the CSA

    Microsoft Corporation

    (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    August 2008Present (1 year)

    In addition to providing leadership for Clew, now spending a portion of each week working directly for Microsoft, a long-time Clew client. Recently shifted from office of CTO to office of CSA (with whole team).

  • Member, SCIP MAC 2009

    SCIP

    (Management Consulting industry)

    2008Present (1 year)

    Member in 2008, then Suki sucked me back in for 2009...

  • Principal and Founder

    Clew, LLC

    (Management Consulting industry)

    June 2001Present (8 years 2 months)

    Clew is a competitive intelligence consulting firm serving some of the most formidable organizations in the world. For complete information, including publications and press information, please visit our corporate web site.


David Carpe’s Education

  • Babson College

    MBA , Finance, Entrepreneurship , December 2001

    Authored a case, mentored students, parked illegally all over campus, advised fellow student entrepreneurs, spoke to throngs of incoming mba students about information not found in brochures, briefly served as poster child for babson's eps program (when i raised funding) - got a pic in their big brochure for students (neato)...

  • The George Washington University

    BFA , Stone Sculpture , 1993


Additional Information

David Carpe’s Websites:

David Carpe’s Interests:

research, competitive intelligence, music, cool technology, movies, journalism, things with wheels, osint, hrci, km, bi, library 2.0

David Carpe’s Honors:

appointed to 2008 SCIP Membership Advisory Committee
recipient of 2007 Future HR Leader Award
recipient of 2005 Future HR Leader award from Human Capital
speaker at a number of conferences 2002-2008 (InfoX, AIIP, SCIP, ERE etc)
columist for Competitive Intelligence Magazine


David Carpe’s Contact Settings

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  • expertise requests
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