Dave Kerpen
Managing Director at Kerpen Ventures
Port Washington, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Candidate for Town Supervisor, Town of North Hemsptead, NY
2025 - Current
Revive, Thrive, North Hempstead Comes Alive! I am taking my skills and experience as a 7 time entrepreneur to government, looking to lead the 5th largest town in the United States with my brand of likeable leadership: listening, transparency, authencity and responsiveness.
Podcast Host
2025
I'm giving people an inside look at all of the ups and downs and inner workings of the campaign, in The Candidate, the first-ever-of-its-kind weekly podcast to dive deep into a local campaign. I hope you'll give it a listen and give me feedback, so I can make it better!
Board Member
2025
I am honored to be the only male leader serving a spectacular all-female leadership team at The Whisper Group. The Whisper Group is an exit readiness practice for women owned businesses. We help women from scale through sale, and we focus specifically on helping turn their lifestyle businesses into life-changing assets. Clients who work with The Whisper Group are paired with exited female founders who have built and sold a business in their specific industry. Clients are led through a process known as the Whisper Way-- a methodology and planning program designed to make a business more valuable at exit. When a client is done with the program, they'll have a healthier, more valuable business that they can either decide to keep running, or join the ranks of women that successfully sold their businesses. The name "Whisper" comes from the seven tenets a business-owner needs to make their business sellable for maximum value: evaluating their Why, How, Income, Secret sauce, Profitability, Executive team, and Roar factor (i.e. the confidence to sit in a room full of men to negotiate the biggest deal of their lifetime). But it also comes from the fact that no one is speaking loudly about the exits of women business owners. We talk about fundraising. We talk about bootstrapping. We talk about work-life balance. But we don't often discuss selling for life changing sums of money. And I think that's because we simply don't realize it's possible. The Whisper Group is here to change that.
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
2019
Apprentice is a platform that connects entrepreneurs and business leaders with smart and motivated college students that are looking for real-world experience and mentorship. Apprentices work between 10 and 15 hours per week from college, on anything and everything needed to make their leaders’ lives easier and to make them more effective. Learn more now at http://ChooseApprentice.com
Managing Director
2021
Kerpen Ventures is an investment vehicle through which serial entrepreneurs and wife and husband team Carrie and Dave Kerpen invest in early stage startups (pre-seed or seed round) who meet one or more of the following criteria: 1) Female founder / owner 2) BIPOC founder / owner 3) Social impact focus If you meet these criteria, we look forward to talking!
Advisor
2022
Helping company scale while helping the world be more grateful. Meaningful. Purposeful. Grateful Giving. Where businesses give to nonprofits that matter most to their customers and employees
Grateful is a platform where businesses and individuals can send a virtual giving card
Author
2024
My 4th business book and 5th book overall, Get Over Yourself: How to Lead and Delegate Effectively for More Time, More Freedom, and More Success is a roadmap for entrepreneurs, small business owners and leaders at companies of all sizes. Published by BenBella, the book is endorsed by Barbara Corcoran, Jesse Cole, AJ Jacobs, Dorie Clark and Pat Flynn.
BenBella Books is a publishing boutique that aims to be the publisher of choice for a select group of authors who value personal attention.
Advisor
2021
I’m helping this amazing, healthy chocolate company scale.
Bon AppéSweet creates an all-natural, plant-based, oat milk gelato sweetened with fruit-based sweeteners and zero cane sugar.
Advisor
2021
I’m helping this exciting startup that democratizes access to mentorship scale up.
Advisor
2021
I’m helping this amazing startup scale up. It’s a values-based subscription box for kids and their parents, teaching kindness, courage, gratitude and more!
Education
BS and BA
1994 - 1998
Certificate
1989 - 1994