David P. Prescott, J.D.

David P. Prescott has many years of experience as senior executive, business and leadership advisor and attorney. For more than 20 years prior to co-founding Tarxien Partners, he was senior executive of a private investment company. In that role, he collaborated with key operating executives on major strategic, financial, tax, human resource, corporate culture and organizational decisions as well as on the development and implementation of detailed operating policies and procedures. Additionally, he worked on investment analysis; acquisitions; marketing and sales; product delivery systems; management and quality assurance processes; corporate redirection; executive selection and oversight; financing; and the sale of assets. David was also intimately involved in sophisticated estate planning in concert with investment, tax and estate planning advisors.

As a practicing attorney for more than eight years prior to his business career, David handled a wide range of business, commercial and personal matters such as corporate and partnership organization, operation and taxation; securities law; employment law; mergers and acquisitions; real estate; contracts; commercial transactions; commercial and bankruptcy litigation support; counsel and trustee under the Securities Investor Protection Act; and trusts and estates. He is a member of the New York Bar.

David has extensive experience as a leader on boards and committees of profit and not-for-profit organizations and local community groups. He is an experienced teacher, facilitator and public presenter. He developed and led numerous workshops on strategic planning, learning organizations, leadership models, small business management and marketing, business ethics, and money and vocation. He organized and co-taught a week-long marketing and management seminar in the then Soviet Union in 1991 and was a Woodrow Wilson Education Foundation Visiting Fellow in 1996. As a community activist, David has served and now serves on several not-for-profit and community boards. These boards include The Sims Institute for Servant Leadership and GreenFaith, where he has been chair, the Isles Foundation, the Lawrence Township Community Foundation and Sustainable Lawrence.

David received his law degree from Fordham Law School and his A.B. from Brown University.

David with daughter Kate

David has published several articles in Perspectives, the journal of the World Business Academy, including Corporate Purpose and Meaning Making; The Triple Bottom Line: Who Speaks for Wolf?; and Theology and the New Paradigm.

David is an avid fly fisherman, fresh and salt water, and enjoys reading, travel and cooking, especially baking bread. He is a widower, having been married to his late wife for more than 40 years. He is father of two adult daughters, Katherine and Elizabeth.

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