David Park
Beat The GMAT - Chief Executive Officer
Location: San Francisco, CA
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS); Harvard Law School (JD)
GMAT Score: 780
Forum Username: DavidP
David Park is the business partner of Eric Bahn, Beat The GMAT’s founder.
Prior to working on Beat The GMAT, David was a product management leader at Intuit, the leading personal and small business finance software company. David is also veteran of both McKinsey & Co. and the Boston Consulting Group, where he provided strategic and operational advice to senior executives of Fortune 100 companies.
In the late 90s, David founded Coolboard.com and served as its CTO and VP of Engineering. Coolboard.com was one of the leading providers of hosted online discussion forums for websites. While at Coolboard.com, David grew it to more than one million registered users and a quarter million discussion forums in less than a year. Although Coolboard.com no longer exists, it was one of the top 300 most visited websites in the world at its peak in 2000.
In his free time, David enjoys playing with his daughter, snowboarding, eating excellent food, playing Guitar Hero on medium and geeking out by learning new computer languages such as Ruby on Rails. David graduated with a BS in Computer Science from MIT, and a JD from Harvard Law School. David scored in the 99th percentile in both the GMAT and LSAT.