Bio David Rivard

David has developed businesses in diverse realms that include construction, medicine, politics and property development. His companies, which include Acadian International in Louisiana, Steel Reinforcing Inc. (SRI) in California, Haines Rivard Construction (HRC), Health Quest Corporation, Vital Signals Corporation and Saber Rock Construction (ARC) in Afghanistan, serve as patrons to organizations working on organized labor, health, environment, education and the airline industry’s only relief and development organization Airline Ambassadors International (AAI).

Based in Washington DC and founded at the Rio Earth Summit, AAI’s thousands of airline members provide disaster relief and development while supporting orphanages on every continent.  AAI is also the leading advocate for human trafficking awareness in the aviation industry and spearheaded legislation, protocols and practices influencing FAA, AFA, APFA, IATA, ICAO and several air carriers. AAI has expanded outreach with the American Association of Airport Executives, INTERPOL, Special Operations Command South (SOCSouth) and UNODC while providing the only peer-to-peer training on human trafficking.

David serves on the Board of Directors for AAI and was Country Director for Haiti and Colombia. He is a member of the Interpol Special Operations Network on Human Trafficking. He wrote the architecture for the “TIP Line” smartphone application that reports illicit trafficking in the time sensitive airport environment while initiating class programs for Georgia Technical University to provide the code writing.  David also served in the First Marine Division, First Recon Battalion in Vietnam.