Dave Hunt is an entrepreneur and Founder and CEO of Ensemble IP, a technology enabled patent analytics services company. Dave also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Applikate Technologies as well as a Mentor for Creative Destruction Lab. Prior to founding Ensemble IP, Dave founded and served as CEO of Landon IP, Inc., a professional patent search, analytics, translation and patent training company in Alexandria, Virginia. Landon IP, now named CPA Global, employed approximately 325 people with offices in Alexandria, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Shanghai, Southfield, Michigan and Gurgaon, India upon his retirement in 2015. In the 1990s, Dave worked as a project manager and senior business analyst in the areas of corporate strategy, market research, and competitive intelligence at Freddie Mac. Prior to Freddie Mac, Mr. Hunt served as an operations management consultant at American General Corporation in Houston, Texas. In the 1980s, Mr. Hunt founded Capitol District Information, Inc. and SEC Infoline, Inc., two companies that conduct legal and court research for the securities, title insurance, and banking communities.