Dave Segars is a graduate of Georgia Tech in Civil Engineering and holds a Masters of Business Administration from JMU. He spent 39 years in the field of engineering, including four years as a Lieutenant in the US Army Corps of Engineers, and culminating with the sale if his business, Segars Engineering, to his partners in June of 2024. He has been a Rotarian since 1997, and a member of the Rotary Club of Charlottesville since 2015.