David Bialek

Dave serves as Founder and CEO of Skylark Marketing in Chappaqua, New York. With over 20 years of experience, Dave has handled sales and marketing initiatives for some of the world’s largest sports and entertainment properties, including the French Open, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, The Breeders’ Cup, numerous stadium and arena sponsorship programs, and high profile concert tours.

As an outdoor advertising and alternative media specialist, Bialek has spearheaded the creation of multiple advertising platforms in the place-based and sports advertising space. Dave is credited with building two groundbreaking initiatives in collegiate sports. First, he led a sales team to create an advertising network on field goal nets in over 60 NCAA schools. Second, he invented a “profile” position on NCAA and NBA basket stanchions, which is widely considered to be the most impactful signage position in all of sports. For this latest pursuit, Bialek became the recipient of the prestigious Sports Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 award in April 2009.

Dave previously served as President of ANC Sports Marketing and Director, where he built the marketing group into a leader in team and venue media sales and marketing. Previously, he served as senior vice president of sales and marketing for Van Wagner, where, for over four years, he led the sales effort for Dorna USA's in-game advertising networks and managed the Sports Group’s Media and Sponsorship Sales services.

Prior to Van Wagner, Bialek headed up sales and marketing for AdSpace Networks. In that role, he created a staff devoted to selling a proprietary place based digital media network, CoolSign, located in movie theater lobbies. He has also served as director of sales for The Golf Channel and The Marquee Group, which was acquired by SFX Sports.

Bialek holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin. He lives in Chappaqua, NY with his wife Amy and daughters Julia and Rebecca and Olivia.