Vice Chair and Director
David Eisner serves as Vice Chair and a Director of the Council for a Secure America. From 2018 to 2021 he served as Assistant Secretary for Management of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and from 2020 to 2021 as Acting Treasurer of the United States. As the Treasury’s chief operating officer, he led department-wide operations, including formulation of the department’s budget, strategic plan, and risk management, and he played a lead role in the Treasury’s implementation of the CARES Act. In recognition of his service, he received the department’s highest honor, the Hamilton Medal.
Before government service, Mr. Eisner had a long career as a Wall Street executive, entrepreneur, and investor. In 1999 he co-founded TheMarkets.com, a financial software and data firm later sold to The McGraw-Hill Companies, and he spent twelve years at the investment bank Jefferies & Company, including six years as executive vice president in the office of the chairman. He was three times named to Institutional Investor’s Online Finance 40 as one of the world’s top fintech innovators.
Today Mr. Eisner is an operating partner at Edison Partners in Princeton, New Jersey, and serves as chairman of one of its portfolio companies, K1x, an AI-powered software company serving asset managers, investors, and accountants. He is a frequent op-ed contributor whose columns have appeared in Bloomberg, Newsweek, National Review, RealClearPolitics, The Hill, and Barron’s.
He earned a B.S. in accounting and government from American University and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law.
