David Gray

David Gray is an entrepreneur, executive, and the Founder & CEO of Core Team Partners, with more than 25 years of experience building companies, leading teams, raising capital, and creating growth.
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Across his career, David has generated more than $60 million in lifetime revenue and secured more than $15 million in funding across multiple ventures. His experience spans technology, business development, sales, customer success, capital strategy, and executive leadership—giving him a practical understanding of what it takes to move a company from an idea to an operating and growing business.

David's career has been built through entrepreneurship. He's founded companies, developed products, built teams, raised capital, navigated setbacks, created partnerships, and experienced firsthand the challenges founders face when trying to turn a vision into something real.

That experience ultimately shaped how he works with founders today.

Rather than trying to be the person with every answer, David believes strongly in the Who Not How philosophy: progress accelerates when founders surround themselves with the right people instead of trying to solve every problem themselves.

His role is often to help identify those "Whos"—the operators, executives, capital partners, technologists, advisors, and strategic relationships that can help a founder get further, faster.

That philosophy became the foundation for Core Team Partners.

David created Core Team to give founders access to something that can be difficult to assemble independently: a coordinated ecosystem of people, capital, capabilities, and relationships built around helping companies move forward.

Rather than approaching funding, operations, technology, marketing, acquisitions, and leadership as isolated needs, Core Team helps founders bring those pieces together around a larger strategy.

The objective isn't simply capital. It's making sure founders have the guidance and resources around that capital to put it to work effectively.

David brings an operator's perspective to every company he works with.

Over more than two decades, he has led development, engineering, sales, customer success, and executive teams while working across different stages of company growth.

That experience has reinforced a simple principle: strong companies aren't built by one person doing everything.

They're built when the right people are aligned around the right opportunity.

Today, David's focus is helping founders build those relationships, assemble the right  team, access resources, and create the structure necessary to turn ambitious ideas into sustainable businesses.