As David Fennell campaigns across the California making stops in all 58 counties one of the most common questions he hears is “What does a Lieutenant Governor do?” And “Why does your background qualify you to be Lieutenant Governor?”

Both are great questions as few voters truly understand the critical role of Lieutenant Governor and why David Fennell’s background makes him uniquely qualified for this powerful position.

The California Constitution created the position of Lieutenant Governor in 1879 and aside from being President of the senate and sitting on some of the most powerful boards in the State, the Lieutenant Governor writes the economic plan for the state and all of its 58 counties. Therefore you need a background in business, economics and a deep knowledge of the state of California.

David Fennell is an entrepreneur who comes from an extended family of inventors and early technology pioneers in Silicon Valley. With his parents working for legendary California research centers and companies such as XEROX PARC, Mare Island Nuclear Power School, Applied Materials, Phillips Semiconductor, Lam Research Corporation, Qualcomm, Dreamworks, and The Aerospace Corporation, technology and new discoveries were regular dinner table conversations in the Fennell household. 

He comes from a large Catholic family and moved to California as an infant growing up in the farming and fishing community of Half Moon Bay California, in San Mateo County where his parents commuted one hour each way to Silicon Valley. This allowed David to be raised in a farming and beach community on the San Mateo coastside, where he became an Eagle Scout and an avid outdoorsman.

Summers were spent with his nuclear physicist father at XEROX PARC where he used the computer mouse, computer screen icons and the internet long before Steve Jobs launched Macintosh in 1984, and 16 years before Bill Gates announced Windows 98. Seeing the extremely talented and hard working XEROX PARC team invent all the basics of modern computing while also watching Steve Jobs with his marketing knowledge make millions from their inventions, David decided to switch his college major from science and engineering to Science in Commerce with a degree in Marketing.  

After graduating from Santa Clara University in 1991, David first took a job selling NeXT Computers for Steve Jobs where the workstation tech was based on the GUI interface Jobs has taken from XEROX PARC. This NeXT computer tech was later purchased by Apple leading Steve Jobs to return to Apple Computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J33pVRdxWbw

Later David Fennell took a job at a Silicon Valley aerospace company in Sunnyvale that produced components for the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter. 

In 1993 David moved to Asia where he studied Chinese at the Beijing Language Institute in Beijing, China, and continued traveling and working in more than 30 countries. David received his Masters Degree in Asian Studies from the University of San Francisco, Center for the Pacific Rim with a research focus on transitioning economies.

David has been the founder of several technology companies, where during the formation of these companies, he dealt with the bureaucracies of Sacramento and discovered first hand how difficult doing business in California can be.

His entrepreneurial ventures started in tech but now he has expanded into the music business which led him to set up additional operations in Oakland where he is now working to set up a vinyl record pressing plant.

Unfortunately, as he works on his new ventures he see costs and bureaucracy rising with jobs leaving the state.

David Fennell loves California and has decided to remain in the state and help get California back on track with a new economic plan which he is uniquely suited to write particularly since the Lieutenant Governor acts as the chief economic ambassador for the state.

With his Silicon Valley background and international experience he became a sought after speaker giving and writing economic proposals for developing countries, and has given papers and talks in locations as diverse as the United Nations Development Program in Geneva, Switzerland to the Mongolian National University in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. He has attended and hosted numerous delegations including bringing the first ever West Coast official state delegate to North Korea, and has held joint events with organizations such as the World Bank, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Asian Development Bank, Hoover Institute, etc.

In addition, to having the unique qualifications to be your Lieutenant Governor and write the economic plan for the state, David Fennell also has the economic and financial background to spot white collar crime and abuse of our government tax dollars.

This is skill is particularly important given the recent $20 Billion in COVID unemployment fraud some of which was being conducted by inmates while they were in California prisons.

David is a lifelong Catholic and Eagle Scout so he has a long history of helping Federal, State and law enforcement.

Aside from being elected Chair of Oakland’s Crime Prevention Council he became an active whistleblower on white collar crime coming from Silicon Valley particularly FDIC, SEC, ERISA and other fraud.

One problem with white collar crime is few people know antitrust law.

However, David Fennell focused on antitrust law as well as transitioning economies during his undergraduate and graduate degrees and when he came across white collar crime he immediately reported the fraud to law enforcement and regulators.

Since white collar crime “follows the money” it should surprise nobody that with all the new social media tech billions Wall Street white collar criminals and Chicago style political influence peddlers have “followed the money” and set up massive white collar crime in David Fennell’s home county where he watched the land of Apple Computer and XeroxPARC be taken over by white collar criminals such as Theranos and Solyndra (Fennell provided information to Federal agents to help the government in both cases).

The reason David Fennell has been reporting so much fraud is he grew up in Silicon Valley and knows all the players, and given his economic and tech background he can spot fraud very quickly. In addition, he runs in the same circles as the tech innovators as well as the white collar criminals and can tell the difference between the two. Often the young Federal agents who should investigate white collar crime have been brought in from the East Coast and can’t tell the difference between fake data and real data. They simply do not have the economic background and do not understand California much less Silicon Valley.

In 2008, David began reporting fraudulent activity to the FBI, FDIC, and DOE and has been actively working to shine a light on over $20 Billion dollars in confirmed criminal fraud in San Mateo County.  This investigation has included more than 50 meetings and presentations with law enforcement officials related to corporate lawyers and their role in orchestrating DotCom Green Energy fraud. These corrupt deals have also included local developers and their role in the United Commercial Bank TARP Fraud, (costing the FDIC $2.5 Billion) and the laundering of American Sterling Bank funds through the California Republican Party (costing tax payers $42 Million).

Despite naysayers suggesting that the corruption is too big to fix, David made the decision to throw his hat into the race for Lieutenant Governor to help crack down on fraud once and for all in the State of California.

If elected David Fennell will be a voice for change, and a voice for all Californians. David will help put California back on the map as the best state in the country to live, work and do business.

Also, David Fennell has the support of his loving wife Na Fennell.

David met his wife and soulmate Na in 2002.

It was love at first sight. They’ve been together ever since

Na was a Vietnamese refugee who immigrated to the US at age 12 not knowing any English, not even her ABCs. Through perseverance and hard work, at 18 she was accepted to UC Davis and received a Biotech degree in 2000.

She is a renown scientist in the Bay Area and a recipient for the Presidential Green Chemistry Award.

On the weekends, David Fennell and his wife Na love to visit California driving through the coast from Mendocino to San Diego, from the Shasta Cascade to the Eastern Sierras, from Central Valley to the Mojave Desert. They are the first couple to ever attend all of Californian’s 78 District and County Fairs and are avid music goers attending hundreds of concerts in California.

There is no place in California David Fennell and Na Fennell won’t go.

David Fennell can’t wait to go to work for you in Sacramento as your Lieutenant Governor.