David Nour

David Nour: Profile

A native of Iran, David came to the U.S. with a suitcase, $100, limited family ties and no fluency in English! In the past 25 years he has built an impressive career of entrepreneurial success, both within large corporations and early stage ventures.

David is the author of Relationship Economics (Wiley, 2008), The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Raising Capital (Praeger, 2009) and the Social Networking Technology Best Practices Series. He is a contributor to The Social Media Bible (Wiley, 2009) and is currently researching and writing his next commercial book on Enterprise Social Networking. David and his team have researched over 400 global social networking applications in 22 distinct categories, publishing articles such as “What’s your enterprise social networking strategy?”, “How mission critical is your social networking?”, and “The Future of Enterprise Social Networking” in numerous publications.

In addition to serving his community as a former board member of the Center for Puppetry Arts and a former co-chair of the United Way Tech Initiative, The Bridge, and the High Tech Ministries, David is also an active member of several professional organizations, including the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), American Management Association (AMA), Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) and the Society of International Business Fellows (SIBF).

In recent years, David has been named to the Georgia Trend’s 40 Under 40, Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Up and Coming and the coveted Turnkett Leadership Character Awards. He has been featured in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The Atlanta Business Chronicle, Georgia Trend, Entrepreneur and Success magazine.

David earned an Executive MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University and a BA degree in Management from Georgia State University.

Why David Nour?

David's personal story is one of courage, determination, and the will to escape the oppressive regime in Iran for the American Dream. His bio illustrates extensive experience as a visionary business leader, passionate about execution. In the past decade, David has become one of the foremost thought leaders on the quantifiable value of business relationships. He’s a social networking expert with the ability to target his global message for a broad audience of senior leaders to front line contributors.

He offers customized, highly inspirational content that is entertaining, informational and interactive. David's highly acclaimed speaking series - Connecting the Dots - provides a systematic approach to building, nurturing and quantifying the key relationships that can produce extraordinary results. David can speak on specific topics or combine several topics for a customized presentation that meets your organization's requirements.