David is the founder, director and chief market strategist for
Sabrient. A lifelong investor, David designed and developed the
critically acclaimed stock search program, ProSearch, and the market
timing indicator, the Brown Breakout Ratio (BBR).
He was named Stock Traders Almanac’s Man of the Year for 1988 for
“[showing] the average investor how to spot the stocks that the hottest
money managers are buying.” He has edited several market letters,
including the Undervalued Growth Report, a real-money portfolio which
he published for 10 years with a record of nearly 20% compounded annual
returns and no loss years.
He has documented his investing expertise in four books on
investing, including About Stock Market Strategies (McGraw-Hill, June
2002) and Cyber-Investing: Cracking Wall Street with your Personal
Computer(John Wiley & Sons, 1994, 1997). The latter was named Book
of the Year in 1997 by PBS’s Inside Money. He has taught finance and
security analysis courses at the University of Houston.
A former CEO of two public companies, David has served on the boards
of several banks and organizations, including the Advisory Board of the
Southwest Council of Public CEOs. In 1985 he served as Chairman of the
U.S. Science and Technology Commission.
He holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Houston and a
B.S. in Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a member
of the Author’s Guild.