David Larkin is a Director-at-Large and co-founder of Hamptons Observatory. He graduated Syracuse University with a BFA and has since been involved in entrepreneurial and charitable pursuits. David is managing Director of the Loft Group which owns, manages and invests in unique entrepreneurial companies that are at the forefront of change in traditional industries. He is also on the Board of Directors of Trickle Up, an innovative group that helps the world's poorest people start businesses through micro grants and business training; in the last 25 years, Trickle Up has started over 125,000 businesses in more than 90 countries. He is Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor to Nanotronics Imaging, founded AdventureUs and GoWatchIt, and is currently on the Board of Letterboxd Limited, Assemble.me, and JustWatch, which is an international streaming and entertainment marketing company based in Berlin. In addition, David is an angel investor in Fitness Anywhere, CrunchTime, and is a Managing Trustee of the Alan B. Larkin Symposium on the American Presidency, which supports public lectures by best-selling authors, notable speakers, and distinguished scholars.