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David L. Turney has been DRI Corporation Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President since May 1998, and a DRI director since May 1996.
Mr. Turney was co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Robinson Turney International, Inc., which was merged into DRI in April 1998. A consulting firm, Robinson Turney International, Inc. engaged in business development, marketing services, advisory services, and merger, acquisition and financing assignments for selected clients. Until the merger, DRI was a Robinson Turney International, Inc. client and all Robinson Turney International, Inc. clients were in the transit and transportation equipment industries.
From March 1994 to December 1995, Mr. Turney was also engaged in strategic planning and development consulting services for his former employer, Mark IV Industries, Inc. (Mark IV), a New York Stock Exchange listed company prior to its acquisition by a private investor. Mr. Turney founded the Mark IV Transportation Products Group, a group of nine companies, subsidiaries and operating units serving transit and transportation markets worldwide, and served as its Group Executive from February 1991 to February 1994. From 1984 to 1991, Mr. Turney was President of the Luminator division of Gulton Industries, Inc., which became a wholly owned subsidiary of Mark IV in 1987.
Prior to 1984, Mr. Turney served in various managerial and engineering capacities in four corporations spanning the telecommunications, industrial hard goods, consumer electronics, and electromagnetic components industries.
Mr. Turney is active in the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). A former chair of APTA's Business Members group, he presently serves on the APTA Executive Committee and the Board of Directors, as well as other industry elected and appointed positions. He is a trustee of the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose (California) State University.
Mr. Turney received his B.S. degree in industrial management from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, and he has participated in numerous postgraduate study courses in finance, mergers and acquisitions, public company administration, and operations.