David Rice

VP — Research & Development, vAuto

David Rice is vice president of research and development, serving in vAuto’s Austin, Texas-based product development center. Since joining vAuto in 2006, David has played an instrumental role in developing vAuto’s industry-leading Live Market View and Appraising technologies, guiding the integration of third-party data and systems into the vAuto Provision® Suite of tools, hiring and managing a team of 25 developers and programmers in Austin, implementing and overseeing “mobile-first” product development processes, and coordinating product development activities across Cox Automotive business units. Prior to vAuto, David served as a software systems architect for Digital Motorworks, and held software development and engineering roles with organizations in the energy and transportation industries. David received his B.S. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.