Director, Long Island Angel Network. David L. Calone is the President and CEO of Jove Equity Partners, LLC, a private equity and venture capital firm which invests in the internet, software, digital media, real estate and health care industries.  He serves as a director of seven privately-held companies located throughout the United States. He is also the President of Community Computer Connection, a technology and education not-for-profit headquartered in Denver. He is an inventor of a computer-based internet aggregation system that received U.S. Patent # 7,673,327.

He was appointed to the Suffolk County Planning Commission in 2006 and, in 2008, was elected as the Commission’s Chairman. In that role he has led the Commission to focus on land use policies with significant impact on the future of Suffolk County including energy efficiency and distributed generation, smart growth, housing and public safety.

In 2009, Mr. Calone was appointed by the Speaker of the New York State Assembly to the Board of Trustees of the Long Island Power Authority, was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Long Island, and also was selected as a member of the Leadership Advisory Cabinet for the LI 2035 regional planning initiative. He is also a member of the Long Island Energeia Partnership Class of 2009.  In 2008, he served as the head of the transition team for U.S. Congressman Jared Polis.

Previously, Mr. Calone was a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in  New York City. He also served as a Special Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division of the New York State Attorney General’s Office where he enforced state and federal laws relating to the Medicaid program and negotiated a $76.5 million civil settlement — the largest state health care fraud settlement in New York history — with a prominent not-for-profit corporation.

From 1999 through 2003, Mr. Calone was a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.  He was one of two federal prosecutors nationwide to receive the 2003 Attorney General’s Award for Outstanding Contributions by a New Employee, in recognition of his work fighting terrorism-related and corporate international crime including his role in the September 11th-related prosecutions. He served as a guest instructor at the U.S. Army European Headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Brunswick, Georgia.

Mr. Calone graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1999. Mr. Calone graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a degree in Economics in 1996.  He was named a USA Today College Academic All-American and was the first person in Princeton’s history twice to be elected as student body president. He was selected as a 1994 White House Intern where he worked on Vice President Al Gore’s Reinventing Government initiative focusing on management and organizational change within government agencies.Mr. Calone lives in Babylon with his wife, Kate, a divinity student at the Princeton Theological Seminary, and their four year-old daughter and two-year old son.