Dr. David Saad is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Clupedia.  He is responsible for the overall direction and management of the company.  He has invested over $2 million to date in Clupedia.  He is a seasoned veteran in the software industry with over 25  years of experience in marketing, sales, and R&D making him uniquely positioned to lead Clupedia.  After 5 years of extensive study and research, he became one of the leading authorities in referral automation and viral marketing.  One of the products that he developed was nominated for the Innovative Product of the Year Award by the American Electronics Association (AeA).  Also, Dr. Saad won the Most Promising Investment Award during the 2006 Fast Pitch competition sponsored by Tech Coast Angels.

Dr. Saad started his career as a system programmer, became a data base consultant, and did some public speaking covering topics such as relational databases, data modeling, methodologies for logical data base design, software engineering disciplines, etc. 

Prior to founding Clupedia, Dr. Saad founded Braintec in 1986.  He developed ProofReader - a suite of utilities such as spelling checker, grammar checker, style checker, dictionary, and a thesaurus.  ProofReader included a very sophisticated technology based on computational linguistics, heuristics, and artificial intelligence.  Subsequently, Braintec focused on the fast growing and lucrative IT consulting industry and became the largest Unix engineering firm in Southern California with customers such as AT&T, IBM, Sun, NCR, and Teradata.  Braintec was sold to Technisource – an IT firm listed on NASDAQ which was taken private by IntelliMark Holdings.   

Prior to Braintec, Dr. Saad worked for Mathematica Products Group – a software division of Martin Marietta where he was instrumental in establishing the Canadian division.  Dr. Saad won several awards for his software sales achievements including the ICP award.   Prior to Mathematica, Dr. Saad worked as a programmer and data base consultant for IST - a consulting and service Bureau based in Montreal, Canada. 

Dr. Saad earned a PhD in Computer Science with high honors from University of Paris, an M.Sc.A. Cum Laude in Computer Science from McGill University, a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Concordia University, and a D.E.U.G. in Mathematics & Economics from University of Paris. 

Dr. Saad speaks four languages.  He had a very successful athletic career in Judo.  He participated in the European Championships, World Championships, Pan American Games, and the Olympic games.  Dr. Saad was also the executive producer of a Rhythm & Blues (R&B) album by a female group called Foxx Empire.