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DAVID A. BAXENDALE: Managing Director

David Baxendale has been engaged in managing acquisitions, divestitures and financial and strategic advisory activities for more than three decades. For the past ten years he has been a key strategic advisor and principal architect of Torstar Corporation’s education initiative. Torstar built, through acquisitions and internal initiatives, the 4th largest supplementary education company in the United States. David has been a frequent speaker at education industry tradeshows since 1993.

David joined Tucker in 1985 after seven years as Managing Director of Tower Hall, Inc., a New York based investment banking firm. While at Tower Hall, David was a specialist in LBOs and management buyouts. He began his business career with Johnson & Johnson where he was Director of Strategic Planning responsible for implementing new strategic planning initiatives in J&J’s North American operations. Later he founded, and was named Vice President and Director of Johnson & Johnson’s venture capital subsidiary, the J&J Development Corporation. In this capacity David oversaw investments in a large number of emerging medical technology enterprises. He earned his AB in economics from Harvard College magna cum laude and his MBA from Harvard Business School.

David’s interests include classical music (he has served on the Board of the Princeton Symphony Orchestra since 1998) as well as the preservation of historical properties and open spaces where he has served as an advisor to the Vermont-based Landmark Trust-USA for the past several years.