Dave Maney is an entrepreneur/journalist and Founder/CEO of Deke Digital LLC, a Colorado-based digital media and content marketing company that serves financial, healthcare and technology companies across North America. He began his career as a journalist at the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin in his hometown of Binghamton, New York before eventually joining the San Francisco Chronicle Publishing Company as Assistant to the President of the Newspaper Division. He did merger & acquisition work in the newspaper and cable TV industries before entering the operating side of the cable business, with a growing focus on the practical realities of deployment of broadband technology. He founded Worldbridge Broadband Services Inc. in 1994, which merged with C-COR Inc. in 2000. He jumped into the financial services world in 2001, co-founding Headwaters MB LLC, a middle market merchant banking firm (which has continued its successful trajectory since his 2011 departure, recently being named Investment Bank of the Year for 2014 by M&A Advisor). In 2008 he became a frequent contributor to national cable news networks (CNBC, Fox News, and CNN) covering the Main Street effects of the Wall Street meltdown. In 2011 he launched his "Economic Revolution" column in the Denver Post and later at Forbes.com. He has been a Daily Beast contributor since 2014. He founded Deke Digital in 2011. Deke helps its clients create sophisticated financial, healthcare and technology content that Deke then distributes via its major national and trade media platform partners. He has been an active member of the Young Presidents Organization and its alumni group, the World Presidents Organization, since 1998, serving on its International Board of Directors as Education Chair for three years. He also led the effort to create YPO/WPO’s worldwide media partnership with CNBC.  He is a graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton, holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and remains a frequent national media commentator on the information-soaked economic future. He lives in Colorado with his six kids, four dogs, and Canadian wife, and pretends to be both a rancher and an NHL hockey goalie on the weekends.