DAVID WOODBURY

About

Serial founder and agency leader (recent agency exit with completed 3-year earn-out) currently serving as COO but prefers CEO/founder role. Spun Camp Native out of an agency after spotting a hospitality tech gap, raised venture funding, scaled partnerships to 800+ properties, and led the company to a private equity acquisition. Uses AI tools to dramatically accelerate go-to-market, research, and validation cycles.

Experience

Education

Key Strengths

• Founded Camp Native after identifying a market gap; partnered with 800+ properties nationwide
• Led venture-backed startup to private equity acquisition
• Repeated founder with prior agency exit and completed 3-year earn-out
• Rapid go-to-market execution leveraging AI to reduce time/cost of validation and marketing buildout
• Front-of-house leadership: galvanizing teams around clear goals

Reference Highlights

• uniquely qualified to sell anything digital
• builds realistically with intentionality
• high dedication / does whatever is necessary
• strong startup experience and judgment
• phenomenal strategic judgment in ambiguous, high-stakes situations
• operationally efficient; applies process discipline
• able to integrate design, dev, delivery, and ops effectively
• effective at building early teams from scratch
• strong mentor; develops younger professionals
• sets a high bar and fast pace
• removes blockers and enables team success
• leads by example (won’t delegate tasks he wouldn’t do)
• exceptional execution discipline (10/10)
• creates a disciplined culture that strengthens org/talent/offerings
• drove strong results (secured $250K runway; $1M product sales in year one)
• helped clients succeed without breaking operations
• enabled brand awareness gains during Covid