Dave Nestic

Dave Nestic joins JumpStart TechLift Advisors from a very successful technology-based business consulting practice focused on start-up and small business planning and execution.
Dave fulfilled executive roles for clients, as well as advised in areas of technology commercialization, R&D proposal coordination, business analysis, strategic planning, marketing and sales planning, business development, investor presentations, and general management.
He has over 20 years of experience with technology company formation, incubation and development, and technology economic development.
Dave’s wide range of technology experience is well-suited to the diverse field of advanced and alternative energies.
His experience base includes genetically altered organisms and fermentation, embedded communications in electrical distribution and gas lease field operation, underground and surface coal mining software and automation technology, emission abatement technology, and MEMS and nanotechnology development and applications.
In addition to his consulting practice, Dave was also co-founder and VP of Business Development and Marketing for NetEnabled, Inc., an embedded communications and networking company and partner/owner and CEO of ChoiceArt, a framed art manufacturer and online retailer.
He also gained valuable insight into government research funding as Director of an SBIR assistance center for the State of Ohio.
In his most recent long-term client engagement spanning the past six years, Dave was instrumental in SBIR and government R&D proposal efforts for a defense and industrial R&D and manufacturing firm in Dublin, OH, which gained the company awards from NIH, USDA, DARPA and the Air Force and spawned the development of new technology initiatives in biosciences and sensor technologies.
Dave currently serves on the executive committees of the Salem Area Chamber of Commerce and the Youngstown Business Incubator and co-founded and chairs the Salem Area Enterprise Development Forum.