David Fradin
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David Fradin was born and raised in Detroit during the automotive go go years of the 1950s and 60s. He attended the honors Cass Tech High School and the University of Michigan where he started the University of Michigan Flyers Club which has trained over 5000 pilots to date. There he also started a nationwide student organization to support the SuperSonic Transport (SST) called FASST for Fly America’s SST which later became Federation of Americans Supporting Science and Technology to counter on the nation’s campus’ the anti-technology movement of the early 1970s. Later he pioneered the field of environmental mediation and joined Hewlett Packard to help site new facilities after running a successful campaign for Governor Al Quie and John Connally’s Minnesota presidential campaign. While at HP he was classically trained as an HP Product Manager during the 50 years that HP grew 20% a year. He was recruited by Apple to bring the first hard disk drive on a PC to market and later became the Apple /// Business Unit Manager at the same level as Steve Jobs by heading the Apple /// product line and providing the profits which helped fund the development of the Macintosh. He is the author of "Building Insanely Great Products," "Organizing and Managing Insanely Great Products," and the Wiley published "Successful Product Design and Management" all available now on Amazon plus Letters from My Hymie. He has trained companies such as Cisco on product success worldwide. His mission is to help products succeed. He is a commercial pilot, flight instructor and advanced ground instructor in addition to a certified SCCA race driver and white water rafting guide. Since 1969 he has worked on over 75 products and services, at 25 small, medium and large organizations and eleven startups covering hardware, software, services, internet, SaaS, mobile, advertising, online training, video and for non-profit public policy associations and political campaigns.
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