COUNCIL TRUSTEES
Mr. David A. Blohm
President, The Blohm Group
David Blohm’s career includes 30 years of entrepreneurship, mentoring and public service.
David Blohm was, most recently, President and CEO of SmarterKids.Com. He transitioned the company from a CD-ROM publisher of innovative children’s educational software, to an award-winning, Internet retailer of children’s educational products and services. He raised $113 million in capital and guided the company through its initial public offering in November 1999 and subsequent merger with Early Childhood, Inc.(now called Excelligence - LRNS).
Mr. Blohm co-founded MathSoft, Inc. in 1985, a firm that develops and markets mathematical calculation software sold to engineers, scientists, teachers and students. As CEO, he grew MathSoft from start-up to $30 million in sales and guided the company through its initial public offering in early 1993 (MATH) and the acquisition and integration of Statistical Sciences, Inc. Over a million copies of MathSoft’s flagship product, MathCAD, have been sold. MathSoft has since gone private.
From 1978 – 1985 Mr. Blohm was CFO and Vice President of F&A of Higher Order Software. HOS was a developer and marketer of Computer Aided Software Engineering software tools sold primarily to Fortune 1000 accounts and to the government.
Mr. Blohm serves on the Board of companies in the areas of wireless applications for education and training and intelligent character technology. His present and past non-profit and public service activities include: past Chairman of the Massachusetts Software Council, past President of the Council’s Education Foundation, Board of the Acclerated Cure Project which is dedicated to finding a cure for MS, President of Congregation B’nai Torah in Sudbury, past Trustee of the Boston Children’s Museum, served on Massachusetts Governor Cellucci’s Economic Development Council, past overseer of the Boston Science Museum, and past member of WGBH Corporate Executive Council.
He received a BA in Economics from Boston College in 1973.
