David Gardner

CCDC Co-Founder; Co-Founder and Chief Rule Breaker

, The Motley Fool

Washington, D.C. Chapter

David Gardner is the Co-Founder and Chief Rule Breaker at The Motley Fool, a financial services company he started in 1993 alongside his brother, Tom.

David graduated as a Morehead-Cain Scholar from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988 and is a recipient of UNC’s prestigious “Distinguished Young Alumni Award.” He served on the Individual Investor Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange for 15 years and the prestigious Folger Shakespeare Library for 10 years. David is a graduate of the Leadership Greater Washington Signature Program Class of 2019 and is a Co-Founder of Conscious Capitalism DC.

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