David Vance is the Executive Director of the Center for Talent Reporting which is a nonprofit, membership-based organization dedicated to the creation and implementation of standards and best practices for human capital measurement, reporting and management. He is the former President of Caterpillar University, which he founded in 2001. Prior to this position, Dave was Chief Economist and Head of the Business Intelligence Group at Caterpillar Inc.

He is the author of The Business of Learning, now in its second edition, and co-author with Peggy Parskey of Measurement Demystified as well as the Measurement Demystified Field Guide.