David Best:  

So, under my name/photo in the yearbook it says "Business was his aversion, pleasure was his business." I never found out who selected that quote, but at the time it was pretty much dead-on. But . . . things change. Growing up in the Midwest instilled in me important core values. But I was whisked out of the Midwest early enough in life to adopt a worldly perspective. My varied interests, culturally rich family life, and especially my entrepreneurship, have taken me far and wide. My formal training is as a classical musician (oboist), but I spent my career in high technology, and building businesses in venture capital. Although I have educational credentials (Stanford Graduate School of Business), I prefer to think of myself as a student of life and ¿on the job¿ training. Close friends have described me as a "self made man." Guess that's better than them saying I'm a self made woman. Today, my calling card represents me as an "Artisan, Raconteur et Bon Vivant" - which is one way of saying I retired early (45) and have returned to many of my passionate interests and am now single again. I pursue several interests actively, including interpretative portrait photography, fine woodworking, writing and story telling, cooking, helping young entrepreneurs start and run their companies, teaching wine appreciation, fathering two teen girls (one in college and one junior in high school), and maintaining friendships all over the world. I have lived in many places in the US, traveled extensively throughout Europe and the Pacific Rim, sailed in a variety fun places and circumnavigated the world aboard s...Expand for more