David Friedman

Mr. Friedman was most recently the co-founder and former president of Wealth-X, the world's first and only global wealth data and intelligence platform. Wealth-X was the first company leveraging hundreds of researchers across the globe to gather open source data and distill that information into bespoke intelligence dossiers within a database. Wealth-X's clients include the top global brands in luxury, financial services and non-profit organizations.

As the Co-Founder of Wealth-X, Mr. Friedman has emerged as one of the world’s leading experts on the global ultra affluent market and his opinions on a broad range of topics involving the ultra-wealthy have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, Investment News, CNBC and The Telegraph. He also has appeared frequently on various news programs including BBC, FOX, CNN and Bloomberg to provide his expertise and opinions on trends related to wealth.

Prior to co-founding Wealth-X, Mr. Friedman spent several years as Managing Director at CB Richard Ellis advising global Fortune 500 companies on their location strategies as well as sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East, Asia and Latin America on real estate development projects related to economic growth strategies.

While at CBRE, his client portfolio included the Saudi Royal Family, Kuwait Finance House, the Government of Puerto Rico as well as consulting for various Sovereign wealth funds.

Before joining CBRE, David was an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley where he founded several start-ups across a variety of industries, including automotive ecommerce with co-founder Michael Yang, founder of MySimon (acquired by CNET for $700M), as well as a mobile text giving enterprise. While in Silicon Valley, Mr. Friedman also served as the Chief Strategy Officer of a foundation focused on empowering women in developing countries by building curriuculms that fused preventative health and with self awareness confidence building methodologies. The foundation was funded by a noted venture philanthropic giving by a noted Silicon Valley donor.

Mr. Friedman’s moved to Silicon Valley in the mid to late 90s to work for a boutique strategy consulting group that focused on high growth companies and counted among its clients Sony, Cisco, Incite Genomics. Mr. Friedman also provided strategy consulting to large non-profits such as Prison Fellowship (built the first year round mentoring program for Angel Tree children which are children of inma