McComb, Inc. | A technology practice | 2001-present
McComb, Inc. is the personal technology consultancy operated by Dave McComb since January 2001. Twenty-five years of advisory, fractional CTO, build, and diligence engagements across early-stage technology, venture capital, ecommerce, live entertainment, and hospitality. The practice has now consolidated into Dave's role as Chief Technology Officer of eiq2 Data Orchestration.
The practice
The legal vehicle through which Dave conducted advisory and consulting work alongside operating roles, including CIO of Track Entertainment, founder of Clubplanet, and his Vermont hospitality ventures.
The current chapter
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of eiq2 Data Orchestration, building digital assets and data infrastructure for regulated markets. Co-founded with CEO Melanie Santos Grant. Headquartered in Moorestown, NJ.
01 - Practice areas
The work the practice has done, repeatedly, for twenty-five years. The same shapes are now applied at eiq2.
Architecture review, technology roadmaps, build versus buy, vendor selection, and executive-level technical counsel.
Embedded leadership for founders without a senior technologist in seat. Hiring, team build-out, and platform direction through critical inflection points.
Architecture and delivery of consumer platforms, booking systems, ticketing flows, ecommerce stacks, and the integrations between them.
Code, infrastructure, security, and team assessments on behalf of investors evaluating acquisitions in consumer tech, events, ecommerce, and hospitality.
Threat modeling, network and identity review, encryption posture, and incident readiness rooted in Goldman Sachs Information Security discipline.
Hands-on counsel for founders shaping product, technical positioning, and early go-to-market.
Live entertainment
Stood up engineering function and drove integration following acquisition of a top-tier ticketing competitor. Resulting platform reached top-five US scale.
Consumer commerce
Led code, infrastructure, and security review on behalf of acquiring party for a consumer ecommerce platform. Diligence findings reshaped deal terms.
Hospitality
Architected and delivered the technology stack for a multi-property short-term rental and boutique lodging operation in the Northeast: reservations, distribution, payments, and guest experience.
Financial services
Conducted threat modeling and infrastructure review drawing on institutional-grade discipline from Goldman Sachs Information Security background.
Consumer platform
Advisory relationship covering architecture, hiring, and product direction through the company's first two financing rounds.
The missing layer is not better models. It is a new data architecture where ownership sits with the data subject, not the platform.
eiq2 builds the data infrastructure and digital-asset rails that let individuals and organizations hold, govern, and monetize their own data, then operates regulated-market ventures on top of that infrastructure.
Flagship deployments
Financial services
Tokenized real estate with VA/SBA integration, SEC-compliant issuance, and secondary liquidity via ATS. Targeting 200 to 400 bps WACC reduction.
Healthcare
Patient-controlled longitudinal data and AI maternal risk stratification, focused on closing New Jersey's maternal mortality disparity.
"Both are vertical deployments of the same shared SDA infrastructure, not standalone apps."
04 - Operating record
Digital assets and data infrastructure. Co-founded with CEO Melanie Santos Grant.
Vermont hospitality and real estate technology operations.
Vacation rental operations in the Killington market.
Holding entity for real estate, hospitality, and technology advisory interests.
Digital experience platform for American Express, T-Mobile, Pepsi, and Heineken.
Grew into a top-five US ticketing platform. Pioneered direct-to-consumer event commerce in the early 2000s.
Enterprise ecommerce for Disney and Scholastic.
Foundational institutional security discipline.