Dave Lauer is the Co-founder and CEO of Urvin AI and Urvin Finance, a fully-integrated social platform designed to elevate online engagement. In his roles, he leads the team in building Urvin Finance’s The Terminal, and empowers retail inventors with a focus on responsible investing and long-term wealth creation. Dave is a market structure and technology architecture consultant that focuses both on highly scalable technology architecture design and helping organizations understand and navigate modern equity markets. He is an expert on the new electronic marketplace for equities and commodities, with extensive expertise in helping design and build modern electronic trading systems. Prior to Urvin, Dave spent over a decade advocating for financial market reform after serving as a quantitative analyst and trader on high-frequency trading desks, where he was primarily focused on helping companies solve problems, often leveraging technology and data.