David Kil is an active technology entrepreneur. For a new company that uses causal AI and machine learning to help businesses connect their actions to outcomes to improve results. He was the chief data scientist at Civitas Learning from 2021 to 2023, where he developed college student success analytics to improved retention and graduation. He has participated in about a dozen companies in similar ways, since he started as the manager for Intelligent Systems at Rockwell Science Center. David got his BS degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign in Electronics Engineering and Chemistry. His MS degree in Electrical and Electronics engineering at NYU and an MBA degree and Management and Finance at Arizona State University. I met David when he worked at Civitas and several Provosts and I got a SUNY grant to tie the New York State Department of Labor salary database to the content of programs at a few SUNY universities, particularly in regard to how much that program utilized internships and other experiential workplace experiences.