David Gladstone is Chairman of the Board of Gladstone Capital Corporation, a public-traded specialty finance company. With over 25 years of experience making loans and investments to small and medium-size businesses, he is considered an industry leader.
Mr. Gladstone was the past Chairman of American Capital Strategies. He left that company in 2001 to found Gladstone Capital and he is the past Chairman and CEO of Allied Capital until 1997. He is the author of Venture Capital Investing and Venture Capital Handbook. Mr. Gladstone is also Chairman of Coastal Berry Company, the third largest integrated strawberry producer in the world located in Watsonville, California. Mr. Gladstone holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, an M.A. from American University, and a B.A. from the University of Virginia. He is a Trustee Emeritus of George Washington University and a past member of the Listings and Hearings Committee and the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. He is a past board member of Riggs National Bank.