Summary

Summary

CEO, National Sleep Foundation

As CEO of the NSF, he has been instrumental in pioneering private-sector educational campaigns with health care and consumer companies to bring sleep health and safety education to the public and championing innovation in sleep.

Biosketch

Mr. Cloud is the CEO of the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit foundation dedicated to advancing sleep health and safety. A native of Chicago, he received his undergraduate and MBA from DePaul University. His career has been marked by an unusual blend of business and nonprofit pursuits.

Early in his career, he ran an insurance subsidiary of a health care organization. He later moved to the American Medical Association where he worked on political and advocacy efforts and led large-scale strategic reorganizational planning involving hundreds of specialty and regional medical organizations.

After 15 years in medical association leadership, he moved to the private sector as president of professional services firm, PRRI, serving distinguished surgical and interventional medical specialty organizations domestically and globally, including the American Surgical Association, American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery, Society of Vascular Surgeons, and more.

Video

David Cloud at Digital Health
Published Jan. 7, 2015 | digitalhealthsummit

Media

David Cloud talks to Sleep Junkies

Aug. 19, 2016

… we were very interested to read a new joint report by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) into public awareness and perceptions of sleep technology.

“We are most well-known for our annual Sleep in America® poll, conducted every year since 1991. I joined the National Sleep Foundation in 2008 and have since worked to implement private-sector educational campaigns with healthcare and consumer companies to deliver NSFs sleep health and safety message to the public.”

Quote in Fortune article

“As sensors become smaller, cheaper and more prevalent, it has now become feasible to measure sleep in ways that have never been possible before outside of a laboratory,” says David Cloud, CEO of the National Sleep Foundation. “We believe that the bedroom is the next frontier in home technology and the number of products designed for the bedroom will continue to grow – rapidly.”