David Redick

Biography of Dave Redick

Personal: Dave grew up with his two brothers in a middle class family near Detroit, MI. When he was 14, the family moved to an 80-acre general farm near Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army Reserve. After 46 years in California, he moved to Madison, WI in 2004 to be near his family.

Education and Business: Dave won a four-year tuition scholarship to the University of Michigan, based on grades, activities (Sr. Class President, sports), and need, and started in the fall of 1953. He completed his engineering degree in 1958.Upon graduation he worked as an aerospace engineer for 5 years (rocket engines and satellites) in California, and then started his career in telecom sales and management. In 1965 he earned an MBA in Economics from Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, CA, and after management positions in several other firms, in 1995 became VP Sales, then President, of a wireless engineering consulting firm www.hntelecom.com. He left in 2000 to be VP and cofounder of a Silicon Valley telecom startup ‘Fiberstreet’ (closed, see Google), and helped raise $6 million of venture capital. He moved to WI in 2004, and started Sustainable Energy Earth, a renewable energy engineering consulting firm.

Author: Dave became active in analyzing and promoting better government in 1976, and supports our Founder’s vision of limited government, and free enterprise as the best approach to achieve the most peace, prosperity, ethics and justice. He has run for Congress, US Senate, and WI and CA State Assembly to promote his views. In 2006 Dave started his website www.forward-usa.org to make his ideas and principles more broadly available. Since 2009 Dave has worked as a Speaker and Author of books on the interaction of governments, business, people, and economics.

Contact: RedickD@aol.com