David S. Rose is an Inc. 500 CEO, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, best selling author and keynote speaker who has founded or funded over 100 pioneering companies. He has been described by Forbes as "New York's Archangel", by BusinessWeek as a "world conquering entrepreneur", by Crain's New York Business as "the father of angel investing in New York", and by Red Herring magazine as "patriarch of Silicon Alley". David is the Founder and CEO of Gust, Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels, Associate Founder of Singularity University, Co-founder of the AREA technology accelerator, and Chairman of the Board of Social Bicycles. He has written two New York Times best selling books: Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money & Having Fun Investing in Startups (Wiley, 2014) and The Startup Checklist: 25 Steps to a Scalable, High-Growth Business (Wiley, 2016).