David Pilger

David Pilger is a founder and principal at Flex Banker LLC, a corporate advisory firm focused on providing corporate finance and capital raising advice to growing companies with innovative technologies. Flex Banker focuses on education, Ag-science, alternative energy, and manufacturing/industrial sectors as well as the financial sector. In addition to advising emerging growth companies with game-changing technology, he has been a consultant or advisor to large institutional clients such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Pepsico to name a few.

David teaches corporate valuation and financial modeling and trains financial industry professionals at top financial institutions such as Paulson & Co., Barclays Capital, and other leading financial institutions at Blue Chip Career advisors.

Prior to working at Flex Banker, David specialised in senior bank debt at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He oversaw approximately $2 billion in the firm's bank loan structured trading and derivative portfolios. Before joining Goldman Sachs, he worked in investment banking at Merrill Lynch and Shinsei Bank in Tokyo, Japan, focusing on corporate advisory and M&A within the financial institutions sector.

David studied finance at the University of Virginia, earning a B.S. in Commerce. Upon graduating from the University of Virginia, he entered Princeton University, studying Japanese, and later went on to study advanced Japanese at Jouchi University in Tokyo, Japan.