David Friend is the co-founder and CEO of Wasabi, a revolutionary cloud storage company. David\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first company, ARP Instruments developed synthesizers used by Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin and even helped Steven Spielberg communicate with aliens providing that legendary five-note communication in Close Encounters of the ThirdKind. Friend founded or co-founded five other companies: Computer Pictures Corporation \u00e2\u20ac\u201c an early player in computer graphics, Pilot Software \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a company that pioneered multidimensional databases for crunching large amounts of customer data, Faxnet \u00e2\u20ac\u201c which became the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest provider of fax-to-email services, Sonexis \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a VoIP conferencing company, and immediately prior to Wasabi, what is now one of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s leading cloud backup companies, Carbonite. David is a respected philanthropist and is on the board of Berklee College of Music, where there is a concert hall named in his honor, serves as president of the board of Boston Baroque, an orchestra and chorus that has received 7 Grammy nominations. An avid mineral and gem collector he donated Friend Gem and Mineral Hall at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. David graduated from Yale and attended the Princeton University Graduate School of Engineering where he was a David Sarnoff Fellow.<\/p>\n