David A. Collard is a Manhattan-based global business CEO and entrepreneur running companies that operate across multiple industries with a focus on advanced manufacturing and innovation generating products and services for the B2C, B2B, and B2G markets. His eye for business, client-centric mindset, teamwork, and entrepreneurship have been refined from a young age and throughout his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he became the youngest Partner in PwC’s New York headquarters history at age 32 and developed a trusted advisor relationship with several of New York’s well-known banking-sector titans. In 2019, he took his biggest, yet calculated risk and withdrew from his partner position with PwC to pursue his entrepreneurial passion, creating Scale Facilitation® to reinvigorate the innovation continuum for the benefit of Australia and the United States. Scale Facilitation® recently secured over USD $500 million in intellectual property to establish Recharge Industries™. David now has dozens of companies across multiple continents and recently secured an entire floor in NYC’s iconic World Trade Center. David is a rare breed of entrepreneur, one who combines visionary foresight and creativity with business discipline and a proven ability to execute at the highest level in U.S. and international markets.