Endeavor Global

As SVP of Marketing, Communications and Partnerships, David Wachtel directs Endeavor Global’s outreach efforts with a focus on increasing brand visibility and promoting Endeavor’s leadership in the field of High-Impact Entrepreneurship. The marketing team manages Endeavor's website and social media, creates all marketing materials, coordinates core global events and manages press relations.

Wachtel is also responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with Endeavor's growing list of corporate partners, including Barclays, Citi Foundation, Dell, Ernst & Young, SAP and the Zennstrom Philanthropies. The primary goal is to align these organizations' commitment to entrepreneurship behind enhanced support for existing Endeavor programs, research projects and international expansion goals.

Prior to joining Endeavor, Wachtel had a career in international publishing and business media. He served as Publisher of Institutional Investor, Director of Media & Marketing at Bloomberg LP and Vice President of Marketing for the Wall Street Journal. More recently he ran his own consulting firm focused on strategic marketing and sales for a number of well-known media companies.

He is a graduate of Princeton University, where he majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and currently serves as a member of Princeton’s Alumni Relations Committee. He also has an MA in French Studies from New York University and earned a diploma in Economics at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, which he attended as an ITT International Fellow.