David Thomas is currently working as the Founder of SupraSphere, a Boston-based technology firm. He has fifteen years of experience in the computer industry. He has held various development, sales, and management positions at the Shiva Corporation, Inergy Online, Open Market, and Cisco, and currently consults to numerous investment management companies. He has a BA from Tufts University in History, with a concentration on the interplay between ethnicity, nationalism, and religion in the Middle Eastern region. He has also studied computer science at Harvard University, Arabic at the Lebanese American University, and media convergence and multiculturalism at Tufts. He climbed Mt. Washington in 1:19:18 on his bike.