David graduated from the University of California, Riverside in 2008 and started his carrier in the accounting industry. David has worked with several large companies, including the renowned Walt Disney Co., before making the switch to the insurance field.  His first insurance role was with Woodruff Sawyer & Co, specializing in pre-IPO private companies and Public Directors & Officers insurance as well as Financial Institutions. David focused primarily on helping mitigate risk for pre-IPO companies within the California region.  He then transitioned to the wholesale space and worked for a subsidiary of Brown & Brown Insurance working on multiple lines of management liability & professional liability eventually earning his Management Liability Insurance Specialist designation.  After that, David worked at Risk Placement Services, Inc. as a Senior Broker supporting many of their client’s toughest wholesale placements, including placing large towers of insurance for middle to large companies buying large towers of $ 100M in insurance limits.   He also managed a large CA real estate E&O book with some of the biggest real estate firms in CA.  
With well over a decade of experience, David is now with Burns & Wilcox as a Senior Broker to help grow the west coast practice with his knowledge and expertise for structuring risk portfolios for companies across all management liability and professional liability classes of business. 
Lines of expertise for private, public, non-profit, or financial institution entities include but are not limited to: • Directors & Officers, Employment Practices, Fiduciary Liability, Crime Insurance, Media Liability • Sexual Abuse & Molestation stand-alone• Technology E&O, Cyber Liability. • Professional E&O, including Misc. E&O, A&E, Lawyers, Real Estate Agents, Insurance Agents, etc. • Healthcare professional liability & general liability for various classes of business
Education: • BA in Business Administration – University of California, Riverside • Management Liability Insurance Specialist – IRMI • In progress for 2023: ExecPLP, CPLP, and RPLU - PLUS
Contact: • [email protected]• Mobile: 657.375.8163