David Churbuck

As of September 2014 I'm the VP of corporate marketing at Acquia -- a hot company at the right place at the right time where the amazing trends of open source (Drupal, the content management framework supported by the world's largest open source community), cloud (Acquia knows AWS like no one else) and content, community and commerce. Having been in search of the perfect CMS since I first sat down at a Wang word processor in 1980, Acquia brings me full circle in a career always devoted to delivering the best possible experience through the right medium. With customers ranging from entire national government infrastructures to the Fortune 100, Acquia is the most customer-obsessed organization I've been part of.

I'll be managing corporate communications and content development at Acquia, working out of its suburban Boston office.

I'm a journalist/digital media kind of guy who gets told two things constantly: "Wow you've had a weird career" and "You remind me of the Dude in the Big Lebowski."

The career got weird when I arrived at college all determined to be pre-med and a week later was committed to English literature. I may be one of the only English/History majors to be part of a team that designed one of the first "cloud" PCs.

I've lived a divided life between a little village on Cape Cod and a townhouse/office in NYC where I was a principal with Eastman Advisors, a strategy advisory boutique serving very cool clients I can't talk about but who you know and love..

Before Eastman I learned marketing on the job as Vice-President of Global Digital Marketing at Lenovo, the world's largest PC manufacturer. There I did everything from social media to customer service, digital demand gen to web analytics to Olympic sponsorship stuff. I racked up a lot of miles, learned that having "Global" in one's title is not as romantic and wayfaring as it might sound.

I founded Forbes.com in 1995. A movie was made about us: Shattered Glass. Before that I was a technology reporter for Forbes where I wrote a cover story based on my experience forging my paycheck with desktop publishing equipment, an art I learned from Frank "Catch Me If You Can" Abegnale. I got into tech at PC Week, a weekly Ziff Davis newspaper that at one point was the most lucrative publication in the world. Owner Bill Ziff was a mentor and big influence. At PC Week I specialized in networking and software coverage, started