David Friend

CEO and President, Carbonite Before his position with Carbonite, David Friend co-founded five companies: Sonexis, FaxNet, Pilot Software, Computer Pictures Corporation and ARP Instruments. He has been featured in numerous national magazines and newspapers, and Tom Peter's best-selling management book, The Pursuit of Wow! Friend has been a lecturer at MIT Sloan. He is a trustee (emeritus) of the New England Conservatory, Berklee College of Music, and the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Friend holds a bachelor's degree in engineering from Yale University and attended the Princeton University Graduate School of Engineering where he was a David Sarnoff Fellow.