David Collop

David Collop is the principal designer and developer of the analytical engine at the heart of the Advantage software application. Mr. Collop has extensive experience in designing software for financial analysis and structuring, having worked in the field for 30 years.

Mr. Collop was the principal designer and developer of software used by the analytical group at Babcock and Brown. This included several generations of in-house software designed initially to structure leveraged leases, and later generalized to other tax-oriented structures including special allocation partnerships. This culminated in the creation of the Advantage application.

Mr. Collop was also the principal designer and developer of in-house software used by the leveraged leasing group at US Leasing. This included the first application of linear programming to solve the lease optimization problem.

Education includes a B.A. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Cambridge University, England.