Summary
David Lee is a business development leader and founder with 11 years of experience building growth strategies across manufacturing, consulting, and career services. As Vice President of Business Development at WinUS Packaging, he leverages family-business insight to serve food manufacturers while also founding Career Polaris to coach MBA talent and Embolden to support broader ventures. His background blends strategy consulting at Booz Allen, career management at Chicago Booth, and HR/Total Rewards exposure at Kellanova, giving him a rare mix of corporate transformation, talent strategy, and hands-on commercial execution. A Booth MBA with additional credentials in change management and data science from Georgetown, he combines analytical rigor with practical people-first leadership. Quietly entrepreneurial, he balances legacy business stewardship with building new platforms that amplify career outcomes for professionals.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
U.S. State Department Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholar, U.S. State Department Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholar at University of Oxford
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Change Management Advanced Practitioners, Change Management Advanced Practitioners at Georgetown University McDonough School of Business
Graduate Certificate in Data Science, Graduate Certificate in Data Science at Georgetown University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics and International Relations, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics and International Relations at William & Mary
Spanish, Korean, English