David Bonfili

David Bonfili is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of ACME General Corp., a boutique professional services firm focused on driving innovation in the national security sector through connecting government clients with cutting edge technologies being commercialized by early-to-mid-stage startups. Prior to starting ACME, David served as Managing Director & COO at Aptigon Capital, a unit of $27B hedge fund Citadel, as Managing Director & global COO at BlackRock Alternative Investors, BlackRock’s $120B diversified alternative investment platform, and in senior management roles at $50B quantitative hedge fund Two Sigma Investments where he was responsible for launching and managing the firm’s Asia-Pacific subsidiary.  Prior to his career in finance, David served as Special Advisor to the President & CEO of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) and as a Research Staff Member in IDA’s Joint Advanced Warfighting Program, where he earned the Army Commander’s Award for Civilian Service for his work in Iraq with Multi-National Corp-Iraq’s counter-IED task force. Earlier in his career, he served on active duty with the US Navy as a nuclear submarine officer as well as on the faculty of the US Naval Academy where he taught in the social sciences department and as an intelligence officer associated with the Office of Naval Intelligence in the US Navy Reserves.  David earned an MLitt at the University of Oxford where he was a Rhodes Scholar and an AB with honors from Harvard University where he was a Truman and Harvard College Scholar and is a certified Naval Nuclear Engineer.  He is a current or former member of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), the New York City-chapter of YPO, the American Council on Germany (ACG), the Military Operations Research Society (MORS), and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).