Brief Biography

David Bokash is a graduate of Lebanon High School where he was National Merit Scholar, inducted into the National Honor Society and lettered in Swimming and Football. He obtained a BS Engineering (inducted into Tau Beta Pi, graduated in the top 15% of his class) and MS Engineering (awarded Hughes Graduate Fellowship) from Purdue University.  Several years after leaving Purdue, David received an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

 While at Purdue, he was elected to the Student Senate and served as a student representative on the University Senate Educational Policy Committee.  During his graduate studies at Purdue, David was selected by Indiana Governor Robert Orr to serve on the Purdue University Board of Trustees.  After years of working on Fall Break in both the Student Senate and University Senate, David had the privilege being on the first Board of Trustees to officially add Fall Break to the academic calendar at Purdue. Since then, nearly forty years of Purdue Students have enjoyed the benefits of a two-day break halfway thru the Fall Semester.

As an engineer David worked as a System Engineer for Hughes Aircraft Space & Communications Group and also served as a Team Leader for the Aerospace Corporation which provides technical oversight and objective analysis to the U.S. Space Force and other government agencies. While in California he also served as a company coordinator for the L.A. Unified School District’s Adopt-a-School Program.

After business school David worked in Strategy Consulting for Price Waterhouse and as a technical project manager for Federal Express and a product manager for SAP Labs.  He also served as a Business Advisor for the Northern California SBDC Regional Network.  In 2012, David received an Outstanding Trainer award from California Resources & Training (CARAT) for his small business technology webinars and seminars.  He has managed large scale multinational projects with nearly 100 team members and more than 1000 users.