Dave is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Northern Capital Securities Corporation. He is responsible for setting the firm’s strategic direction and overseeing operations, supervision, financial management, and regulatory compliance. With more than 40 years of senior executive experience in institutional finance, Dave has guided the firm through decades of market evolution and regulatory change.

A graduate of Bentley University, he began his career in 1984 at Scott, Starr Associates, a Boston-based institutional investment firm. He became CEO in 1987 and went on to establish Scott, Starr Investments, an SEC-registered investment advisory firm focused on institutional investors.

In 1996, Dave founded Scott, Starr Securities Corporation, an SEC-registered broker-dealer and NASD member firm. This marked a significant expansion of the firm’s institutional capabilities, building out full-service trading, operational and regulatory controls to support the Firm’s complex institutional investors’ needs. Under his leadership, the firm developed large-scale trading and execution services with deep expertise in corporate bonds, U.S. Treasuries, agencies, municipal securities, and mortgage-backed securities.

In 2005, he merged and rebranded the companies as Northern Capital Securities Corporation, establishing a consolidated platform to meet the evolving demands of enterprise wealth management organizations and other institutional investors.