Bio - Chicago GSB MBA Alumni

David can be reached in Chicago at 773 871 8188, via email at david_dalka4gsb at yahoo.com

David Dalka is a business development and Internet marketing strategy leader and consultant who has created revenue and retention in exponential growth organizations which thrive on learning and innovating from customer listening. David develops timely, standardized and regimented client communications and metrics in regards to advertising, social media and financial services. He created sustainable competitive advantages via B2B account management relationships at BlackRock where he led teams that invented quantification and ROI metrics. Innovation of the client experience was driven by client feedback - he’s been practicing social media since 1995. David has experience in designing and driving change management in marketing and sales forces in both small and Fortune 500 organizations. BlackRock grew from 80 to 800 employees during his time there! After BlackRock, David worked in PPM America’s Chicago office.

David received an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago GSB) and a BS from DePaul University in Chicago. Interests include building relationships through networking, conventions, sales, viral marketing, blogs and social media, search engine marketing, location based services/mobile search marketing, writing, public keynote speaking and acoustic guitar music. David is also a writer for two Chicago based institutions, Website Magazine and The Wiglaf Journal. He currently resides on the north side of Chicago in 60657 but spends most of his time in 60606.

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David’s primary blog is located at daviddalka.com/createvalue. My resume is available upon request to qualified employers, venture capital folks looking to build startup management teams, private equity teams looking for executives to or those in the executive recruiter community seeking director, vice president, CFO, COO, CEO, CMO senior executives and/or board of director candidates. Please visit my Linkedin Profile

Thank you for visiting me virtually, please come to Chicago sometime!

Relocation Target Regions – Open to Relocation Internationally

Austin, TX 78701 - area code (512)

Los Angeles - Burbank, CA 91504 - area code (323), (310), (818)

Boston - Cambridge, MA 02138 - area code (617), (508)

Chicago, IL 60606 - area code (312), (773), (630), (708), (847)

Boulder - Denver, CO 80202 - area code (303), (720)

Hong Kong

London, UK

Mountain View, CA 94043 - area code (650), (408), (415)

New York, NY 10105 - area code (212), (917), (201), (908), (718), (203)

Palo Alto, CA 94305 - area code (650), (408), (415)