Summary
Dave Garcia is a veteran technology and product leader with 17 years of experience building high-growth engineering organizations and founder-led products, now serving as CEO of Pensero AI after CTO roles at Abacum and Verse. He has repeatedly scaled teams from early-stage to post-Series C—recruiting and mentoring 50+ engineers at TravelPerk—and led major platform shifts such as Skyscanner’s move from metasearch to marketplace. Comfortable at the intersection of engineering, strategy and go-to-market, he pairs an Executive MBA from IESE with deep hands-on systems expertise dating back to research work on J2EE and WebSphere. Dave has a track record of delivering pragmatic, culture-first technical organizations across fintech, travel and enterprise SaaS, and often builds the tools he wishes existed to make evaluation and decision-making more fair and objective. Based in New York, he brings founder-level ownership and a penchant for turning complex legacy systems into modern, scalable products.
17 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA Executive mba, Executive MBA Executive mba at IESE Business School
UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
English, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese