David A. Hartman holds a B.S. degree cum laude from Case Western Reserve University, and an MBA with distinction from Harvard. During his earlier large corporation experience, he worked in product and process development, market and economic research, strategic planning and plant management, culminating in Manufacturing and Development Director of Mobil Chemicals, Ltd.’s, Polymer Division. Since then he served for 33 years as CEO of successful ventures in manufacturing, transportation, and banking.
Over the past two decades he has increasingly devoted his attention to public policy, most particularly the fiscal economics of government spending, taxation, financial markets, welfare, and education at the state and national level. He served Texas as Chairman of two subcommittees of the 1986 Special Committee on Organization of State Agencies, and ran for State Treasurer in 1994. His many public affiliations include Chairman of the Lone Star Foundation of Austin, Texas and Chairman of the Rockford Institute located in Rockford, Illinois.
Mr. Hartman’s work has been widely published and delivered to conferences. He has also given formal testimony before the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, The Texas Legislature, and The President’s Panel on Tax Reform.