Commencement Speaker

Dave Sabey, President, Sabey Corporation

For more than 40 years, Dave Sabey has sought out people with a fresh perspective, an inspired vision and a relentless sense of purpose. As a result, his earliest developments included, building:

• Boeing Electronics' clean rooms
• ADP's first data center
• One of McCaw Cellular's first switches (this was built and owned by Sabey Corporation)
• Facilities for Exodus Communications, one of the world's first internet co-location service companies
• Starbucks' first external roasting plant

Many of Dave's achievements were FIRSTS. All were breaking new ground in industries of world-wide importance. Dave continues this trend today through real estate development and investments with a particular focus on high performance data centers, healthcare and life science research; as well as communications. He remains passionate about promoting ideas that positively change the world; and is committed to furthering IT efficiencies and improving technology platforms that solve some of the most challenging health care and life science issues that people face today.

Because of his passion and focus, Dave serves on several boards and is a founder of the Seattle Science Foundation; which was established to foster the collaboration of medical scientists, practitioners, and engineers through high bandwidth transmissions while sharing some of the world's most sophisticated skill sets. Through the Foundation and his work with some of medical technology's biggest thought leaders, Dave is helping to advance the global healthcare network within Seattle and beyond.

Dave has a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Eastern Washington, and attended the U.S. Air Force Academy Prep School. He and his wife, Sandy, have three children, two of whom work in the family business.

Affiliations
Trustee Emeritus, Gonzaga University; Honorary Doctorate of Law, Gonzaga University; Board of Trustees, Seattle University; Business Advisory Council, University of Notre Dame; Systems Biology Advisory Council, Harvard Medical School; Board of Directors, Institute for Systems Biology; President's Club, University of Washington; Advisory Board, Global Health Nexus, Seattle; NYC Tech Connect Advisory Board, New York; Washington Roundtable Board, Washington State; Board of Directors, Eastside Catholic High School Foundation, Bellevue WA; President's Council, Eastern Washington University; Alumnus, Young Presidents' Organization

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