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David Burns
CEO of Induct

David Burns has over 30 years of high-tech engineering, marketing, sales, business development, and executive experience. Prior to joining Induct, Burns was CEO of Internet security vendor 2Factor, search vendor Deovo, and desktop search vendor Copernic. While at Copernic, he was responsible for the introduction of the highly awarded Copernic Desktop Search. During his time as CEO, company valuation was increased 2.5 times and the company was sold to search vendor Mamma.com for $23M.

Burns spent more than five years at Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), where he was the original CEO of FAST Inc., the US operating company of Norway's FAST ASA. FAST was recently sold to Microsoft for $1.3B. While at FAST, he was a driving force behind the company's AllTheWeb.com search engine, which was sold to Overture (later bought by Yahoo) for $70M.

Previous to FAST, Burns served as the original Director of Product Marketing for search portal Lycos, one of the top ten Internet sites in the world at the time. During a period of explosive growth for Lycos, he was responsible for a Lycos product suite used by millions of people around the world every day. Prior to joining Lycos, Burns held several senior management positions in leading high-tech computer hardware, software, and networking companies.

David holds a dual Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Connecticut, and an MBA in Marketing from Babson College (ranked #1 undergraduate program in the U.S. for Entrepreneurship by US News and World Report Magazine).