David Price is a technology strategy advisor who helps nonprofit organizations make confident decisions about technology, data, and AI.
The through line of my career is ambiguity. When a leader knows something needs to change but isn't yet sure what the real problem is, that's when the phone rings. And honestly, that's when I do my best work.
I understand nonprofits, technology, data, and strategy, and I can translate among them. My job is to help you define the problem, see your options clearly, and get to action. Calm is part of the deliverable.
I've been at this for three decades, and I've been blessed to serve more than 100 nonprofit organizations. I started as a software engineer at Andersen Consulting, spent eleven years at Arthur Andersen building technology strategies and data programs for organizations like the NAACP, The Nature Conservancy, and Coors Brewing Company, and then led technology at CoBank, a $32 billion financial institution. From there, I became the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's first Executive Vice President and CIO, where my team rebuilt CRM and digital fundraising across 42 chapters nationwide.
A decade as a Partner at Barker & Scott Consulting followed, including interim CIO roles serving the National Audubon Society, ALSAC / St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and the American Lung Association. DVPrice Consulting is where all of that points at one kind of client: a nonprofit with a hard technology question.
I live in Castle Rock, Colorado with my wife Paula and our dog Floyd, who joins most of my video calls uninvited. I bowl in a Thursday league, I'm picking the guitar back up after letting it sit too long, and I'm a University of Virginia graduate. My working theory after three decades: most complicated things are simpler than they look once somebody calms the room down.
Sitting with a technology question you can't quite get your arms around?
I'd genuinely like to hear about it. The easiest next step is a conversation, and it costs nothing but 30 minutes.