I highly recommend Dave for a CEO, Board of Directors and Advisory/Consulting roles. I first met Dave when I was CEO of PLX and we hired him to be VP of Marketing.

His influence and vision helped turn us from an overextended startup to a profitable technology leader with a winning strategy. Dave was very disciplined and organized and forced us to focus and make hard choices rather than chase in many directions.

Because of his strategic talent and people leadership skills, we promoted him to CEO sometime after I retired as CEO and transitioned to the board. Dave took on the CEO position at a very difficult time because we had many distractions such as an acquisition that was blocked by the Justice Department, a proxy contest and patent troll litigation, all of which Dave had to deal with in addition to running a public company.

The board was astonished at how quickly Dave stabilized the company and got it past these obstacles. Dave has the ability to look at a complex business situation and identify the critical few actions needed to succeed, rather than getting sidetracked by details. Employees, customers, shareholders and board members value that Dave is very realistic, direct and earnest, which earns him trust and loyalty.

I would highly recommend Dave for CEO and CMO executive roles and for board membership as well as consulting related to these roles. Dave is the strongest marketing mind I have encountered in my career. I first met Dave through a mutual friend at Wafer Scale Integration. Several years later, I joined Dave at PLX Technology. I worked with Dave for 5 years and for Dave for about 2 years.

During his tenure, PLX transitioned from the weakest player in the PCI Express switching market to the leader, eliminating or overpowering all other participants in the market. Dave could project where the market would be two years in advance and had the strength of character to drive the organization to develop those products. PLX always had industry-leading products that customers needed when they needed them.

Dave was groomed for and took the CEO role as we worked to sell the company in a contentious environment including Federal Trade Commission and activist shareholder complications. He is the adult in the room.

I have known Dave for many years at PLX Technology, initially as a peer and then later as my boss when he became the CEO. Over the years at PLX I have seen Dave to be a very thoughtful and decisive leader. He bought a lot of clarity and focus to our product definition & marketing efforts around the PCI Express product line in his VP of Marketing position. As a small cap company the discipline in focus led us to execute to a very strong position in the industry.

As a CEO he was able to successfully navigate the company strategy to a successful exit. Personally I have learned a lot from him and it was a pleasure working at PLX along with Dave.

I highly recommend Dave for CEO, Board of Director, and other senior management roles/consulting in marketing, operations or finance. When Dave was brought into ASSIA by the board and founder in 2016 as President and COO, the company was losing significant money, struggling to make payroll, and suffering from low morale.

Thanks to Dave’s leadership, as a team we all worked to reduce expenses, become more efficient, while growing revenues and profits to record levels. Dave leads by example, fosters a team environment of transparency and open communication, and never hesitates to roll-up his sleeves to assist. As the Director of Marketing working directly for Dave, we successfully created a winning environment and market leading position in a crowded field with our cloud-based Wi-Fi Software platform, which leverages AI and machine learning. The company is well positioned for the future based on everyone’s team efforts under Dave’s leadership.

Dave is an experienced and savvy executive and board member. He is critically responsible for the strategic success that Broadcom/Avago/PLX has enjoyed in the PCI Express business.

He is a fair and mentoring supervisor who expects the very best from his direct reports. An excellent team builder, he has a demonstrated ability to provide and stimulate strategic thinking. At the same time, he does not shy away from work which requires his personal, meticulous attention to detail. His unique talents allow him to be simultaneously effective at outward bound product promotion as well as driving process and rigor internally. These abilities, coupled with his fabulous negotiating skills (which have saved PLX millions of dollars) make David Raun an asset to any executive team.

Dave Raun understands how to lead and collaborate in just the right doses. As a cross-functional colleague, Dave and I collaborated on dozens of projects at ASSIA, Inc. Dave leads by example. In every situation, you can count on him to be strategically prepared, personally accountable, and ready to take action.

Dave understands the big picture and is just as facile at diving deep. One of Dave’s great strengths is building trust-based relationships — whether it is an employee, colleague, customer, or banker relationship. I have seen Dave cut through red tape and build positive relationships in pointedly tense and adversarial situations. You can always count on Dave to be calm and thoughtful. He works incredibly hard, and never forgets to give due credit to the team.