David Valentine

David (Dave) Valentine brings 30 years of leadership in strategy, finance, and operations to DLI. He currently serves Chief Financial Officer and Vice President for Finance & Administration at Goucher College. Prior to this role he served at the Otis College of Art & Design as the Vice President for Financial Services/CFO, having served in similar positions at the University of Pennsylvania, GlaxoSmithKline, The Annenberg Foundation, The Kavli Foundation, and The Valentine/Crawford Group. David holds a M.B.A. from Drexel University and a B.B.A. from Temple University. David spent a year as President of the Valentine/Crawford Group, providing consulting services to leaders of color in the charter school environment. His experience with the Kavli Foundation included service as Vice President for Finance and CFO, where he effectively stewarded endowment resources of $600M and managed a $35M budget. He also served as the Executive Director of Finance in the Business Services Division—the primary commercial arm—of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn).

David’s notable accomplishments at Penn include adoption of a new funding approach for student residence assets, providing better alignment of timing and financing of annual multi-million-dollar facility renewal and refresh projects, and negotiation of several large contracts, one of which secured the highly regarded campus dining services provider, Bon Appétit. David has served in various governance capacities in the charter school sector, on the boards of both Wissahickon Charter School in Philadelphia, and Bright Star Schools, a Charter Management Organization in Los Angeles.