Dave Garten

Instructor

Office: SBA
Phone: 503-223-8865
Fax: 503-725-5850
Email: daveoutside@alum.mit.edu

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Dave is currently CEO for SeQuential Biofuels. SeQuential is a national leader in the production and retailing of biofuels. In this role, Dave is responsible for developing the company’s growth plans, leading funding activities and providing overall leadership and management of day-to-day operations.

 

Dave has extensive experience in management, marketing, product development, strategic alliances and acquisitions. From 2003 to 2006, Dave worked with several established and start-up companies as a consultant in business strategy, deal making and management practices in the technology, energy and environmental fields. He also was the Acquisition Manager for the City of Portland’s efforts to acquire Portland General Electric; in this role, he brought his business experience to the public sector to strategize, coordinate, and drive the overall acquisition activity.

 

From 1987 to 2003, Dave worked at Intel Corporation. His most recent position was as General Manager for a communications product division. Before that, Dave was Director of Business Development where he developed, negotiated and executed diverse strategic relationships including joint ventures, licensing, strategic supply, acquisitions and equity investments. Dave also held various product management, marketing, strategy, and engineering positions in the technology and automotive industries. He originally engineered diesel fuel injection systems for cars and trucks.

Dave is Adjunct Professor of Business at Portland State University. He currently teaches graduate courses in Business Strategy and Strategic Alliances. Dave is on Metro’s Solid Waste Advisory Board, is the Treasurer for Friends of Forest Park and created an environmental education program at a local elementary school. Dave coaches youth soccer and is an active runner, mountain climber, cyclist and skier.

 

Dave has an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT (1987), a Masters in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1985) and a Bachelor of Science from Trinity College in Hartford, CT (1982).