Dr. David Holcomb currently serves as the Chief Data Officer for American Public Education, Inc.
Dr. Holcomb brings 25 years of experience in business operations, marketing, sales, and information technology with revenue and cost center responsibilities in leading brands including Verizon, Capital One, DHISCO, Western Union, and the University of Chicago Medical Center. Through this diversity of experience, he has developed a deep appreciation for the unique perspectives and uses of data across an organization. These perspectives have allowed him to lead corporate transformations including cloud migrations, process and organizational redesign, and real-time prescriptive analytics development. Dr. Holcomb has also led data and process integrations in multiple global mergers and acquisitions.
Dr. Holcomb’s academic experience includes teaching, curriculum development, doctoral committee membership, and speaking. He has taught on-line and on-ground at the undergraduate and graduate level at multiple institutions in information management, business, supply chain, organizational behavior, and technology risk management. In curriculum development, Dr. Holcomb has redesigned coursework in supply chain and data warehousing and developed the capstone course for a bachelor’s degree in project management. Dr. Holcomb has also performed as a doctoral dissertation committee member specifically as the subject matter expert for leadership theory. He is a speaker, presenter, and writer in data warehousing, business intelligence, organizational behavior, and cyber security.
Dr. Holcomb holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Illinois University, Master of Science in Management Information System from Nova Southeastern University, a Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration from Touro University International, and Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology from University of the Cumberlands.