2019 Featured Keynote

WMY46 Conference

David Gross

PRESIDENT & CEO

THE CONFLUENT GROUP

MANAGING PARTNER

GREYSON GROSS & COMPANY

David is the CEO of The Confluent Group, a private investment organization with a portfolio of real estate holdings, public investments, and private companies. Confluent’s investments are concentrated on real estate, hospitality, and media. Confluent embraces the concept of the dual bottom line - maximizing profits and societal impact. Adjacent to his role at Confluent, David is an advisor to a targeted group of ultra-affluent entertainers, athletes and entrepreneurs.

Before founding The Confluent Group, David consolidated a breadth of investment expertise across a decade on Wall Street. While his primary areas of expertise were credit derivatives and currencies, David traded a range of products, enabling him to develop an expansive body of knowledge spanning multiple asset classes.

Central to his identity as an impact focused investor and entrepreneur, David embraces the concept of the dual bottom line – maximizing both profits and societal impact. Apart from his myriad responsibilities at The Confluent Group, David is the founder of Vector90, an inner city based co working space and incubator, and he is the executive chairman of Our Opportunity, a community-aligned investment initiative targeting economically distressed neighborhoods for transformational development.

David attended Cornell University for his undergraduate studies, with concentrations in Economics and Government. He obtained an MBA in Quantitative Finance from New York University and a Master of Real Estate Development from Columbia University.