David Emerson is the founder of Greendale Ventures, which helps bring next-generation technology to consumer appliances through investment, partnering, incubating and developing new products and solutions. He was previously general counsel at several high technology companies and provides business and IP counsel to high-tech companies, primarily in the semiconductor, data storage and wireless telecom industries.
He began his career at Data General as the designer of the Nova 4 and Eclipse S/130. While at Integrated Circuit Systems he played a significant role in designing the first microprocessor implementations of the PDP-11 and VAX-11 for Digital Equipment Corporation.
