Dave Clauson

Dave Clauson leads NANA’s international business operations. His primary focus is to develop NANA’s commercial interests outside the United States. Previously, Dave led the Qivliq Commercial Group, an IT services company and a NANA subsidiary. Dave has a passion for designing and developing growth focused businesses. A technology marketer by background, Dave founded several Silicon Valley start-ups three of which became successful IPOs. His tenure includes a stint at strategic Internet services firm iXL where he was head of Worldwide Marketing. Under his leadership, Dave helped grow the company from less than 200 to more than 2,000 people operating in 12 countries with a market cap of over $4 billion.

Dave also spent eight years with Foote, Cone and Belding, the largest marketing communications company in North America. At FCB he was responsible for leading the company’s global technology practice with operations in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Working in virtually every category of the industry, Dave has either led or was a key member of the teams that launched the IBM PC and AS 400, Novell’s NetWare, the Palm Pilot, the Intel Pentium Processor, Adobe Acrobat and Amazon.com. All were dominant brands in their category.