David Eastburn:  

I've not run into too many classmates over the years because once I left for college, I never returned to Wilmington. I did run into another fellow classmate in New York a number of years ago and found we have some mutual friends/colleagues -- Larry Katzenstein, who was working at Consumer Reports at the time. And, I communicated with Jim Pooley, who is the "real deal" in the world of patent law. After earning an undergraduate degree in Math & Physics (wanted to be an astronaut, but the back surgery I had immediately after graduating from MPHS disqualified me), I headed to grad school where I earned an MS in Computer & Information Science at The Ohio State University. Career-wise, I was an executive at CompuServe for 22 years ('74-'96) where we pioneered "online" services (yes there was life online before the Internet). Since '96, I've been a consultant -- first helping a few startups including eDrive (NYC), Mainspring (Cambridge, MA) and Roadrunner LLC (Time Warner high-speed internet), then as a patent litigation consultant (expert witness). I have also been on advisory boards and boards of directors for both public and private companies and organizations and am currently Chairman of Nuvocom Incorporated. Married my college sweetheart, Lynne Cramer, and have 3 grown children -- David (Honolulu, HI), Bob (Austin, TX) and Sarah (Chapel Hill, NC) and a granddaughter, Allison (Washington, DC). Have traveled the world for work, for fun and to "give back." Most recently to Tuscany, Provence, Ireland, Japan, Jordan, Israel, Paris, London, Guinea, The Gambia, Philippines, Mexico, N...Expand for more