David C. Newkirk has been a finance and accounting professional in Silicon Valley for more than 25 years; mostly in high-tech start-ups. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded and served as CFO at Xambala and also XaQti which was acquired by Vitesse Semiconductor in 1998. David was Controller at Combinet; acquired by Cisco Systems in 1995.
Early in his career he was the Division Controller for Novell Networks when they were the industry leader in local and wide-area networking. More recently David was Controller at e-waste recycling leader, Metech Recycling and most recently Controller at PerceptiMed, Inc.
Dave holds a B.S. degree in Business from the CSU Chico. He is an active volunteer at Jubilee Christian Center in San Jose and also serves on the Board for the Missions Ministry.