User:DavidBKinnear

Dave Kinnear is a sought after Business Advisor, Mentor and Executive Coach. Through his affiliation with Vistage International, Dave convenes and facilitates peer advisory boards of Business Owners, Company Presidents and Chief Executives dedicated to becoming better leaders who make better decisions and achieve better results. Dave provides one-to-one mentoring for these highly successful executives as well as facilitating monthly advisory board meetings. In addition, individual executives who are presently running successful businesses and executives in transition work with Dave to ensure meeting corporate and career goals.

Dave has more than 32 years of leadership experience at some of the world’s largest semiconductor corporations including Toshiba America Electronic Components, Advanced Microdevices, Fairchild Semiconductor, and United Technologies. His career has spanned Electronic Design, Application Engineering, Procurement Management, Sales and Marketing Management, Business Systems Implementation and Analysis, and Operations. In addition to his work with Vistage, Dave is the founder and CEO of dbkAssociates, Inc., a change management and business practices consulting firm providing economy of knowledge to the Small and Mid-sized Enterprise community.

Dave keeps abreast of current business management through professional speaking, writing, and consulting on corporate governance and business best practices. He engages a wide variety of business entities in all economic sectors including not-for-profit corporations, industrial manufacturers, medical and pharmaceutical manufacturing, Employee Benefits, Logistics, Cost Recovery, Lean Label Manufacturing, Distribution, Software and IT corporations.

Dave holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics Engineering and is a Master of Business Administration. He is a Board Certified Coach (BCC) with the Center for Credentialing & Education. Dave is a long time member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), sits on the board of the California Conference for Equality and Justice (CCEJ), and sits on other not-for-profit and private for-profit boards. Dave is also an executive-to-executive mentor to Executive MBA students at the UCI Paul Merage School of Business and coach for the Center for Entrepreneurship at CalState University, Fullerton.