David Grome on Clubhouse

Bio

🇰🇷🇺🇸 Korean-American adoptee

Curious • Collaborative • Cognitive

Fostering collaboration to drive investment and growth in one of the world’s most innovative economies

🥇 Top-ranked R&D/tech hub via MIT professors Gruber and Johnson
🌃 7th Best City to Live After the Pandemic via Business Insider
🏡 A Top-10 U.S. market for Millennial Homebuyers via LendingTree

📍Greater Rochester, NY
Population: 1.2 million
Workforce: 624,000
Nine Counties

🌎 Managing Director, Business Development, Greater Rochester Enterprise

🏗 $500M total attraction and expansion wins in 2020 across:
🏭 Advanced manufacturing
🧬 Life sciences
🛰 Optics, photonics, and imaging
🔋 Energy innovation
🍎 Food and beverage
💻 Software and IT

Top U.S. hiring-opportunity market via CBRE Labor Analytics (i.e. favorable ratio of qualified candidates per job posting):
#1 Cybersecurity 🔒
#3 Python 🐍
#7 Cloud ☁️

Featured employers include:
Paychex (B2B/software)
L3 Harris (defense/engineering)
Constellation Brands (food/Ops)
Wegmans (food/CX)
Datto (cloud/cybersecurity)
CloudCheckr (cloud)
Sony Electronics (semiconductor)
Panasonic (IoT)
Vuzix (AR/VR)
Microsoft (product)
Hover (AR/SaaS)
PwC U.S. (cloud)
PTC (IoT)
ThermoFisher Scientific (plastics)
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (medical)
IDEX Health & Sciences (medical)
CooperVision (medical)
Cantel (medical)

$500M/year sponsored research:
🐝 University of Rochester
🐅 Rochester Institute of Technology

Board of Directors, Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York

Past agency account director and business strategist supporting corporate growth for Fortune 500 and global brands, including CenturyLink, Daimler, and Kodak:
📥 $30M+ total ad agency revenue
📺 $375M total media managed