David Chao

David Chao is currently an External Board Director and Independent Officer at Softbank Group. Prior to this, they served as Vice President and Head of Marketing at Sqreen from November 2019 to April 2021. In this role, they were responsible for Product Marketing, Pricing, Demand Gen, Marketing Operations, and Corporate Marketing. Sqreen was acquired by Datadog in April 2021.

From January 2018 to December 2018, David Chao served as a Lecturer at The Wharton School. In this role, they taught courses on persuasion and communicating change to Wharton Executive MBA students.

From January 2013 to November 2019, David Chao served as Vice President and Head of Product Marketing at MuleSoft. In this role, they led Product Marketing, including teams focused on Product, Pricing, Industry, Solutions, Developer, and Customer Marketing. David also scaled the PMM team from 10 to 21 members. MuleSoft went public on NYSE in 2017 and was acquired by Salesforce in 2018.

Prior to joining MuleSoft, David Chao worked as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Company from February 2010 to August 2011. David also served as an Operations Manager at WTW from January 2005 to December 2007.

David Chao holds an MBA from The Wharton School, a MA from The Lauder Institute - University of Pennsylvania, and a BA (Hons) from University of Oxford. David also participated in the Wharton - INSEAD Exchange.