David Prentiss

President & CEO

Dave has been President and CEO of the NBSO since 2008. Prior to that, he served on the Board of Trustees. Dave has sat on many boards, advisory councils and committees for nonprofits in the local community including the Zeiterion Performing Arts Center, New Bedford Ballet, AHA!, Tri-County Symphonic Band, South Coast Chamber Music Society, South Coast Humane Society and Shelter, Whitfield-Manjiro Friendship Society, Alma del Mar Charter School, and Our Sisters’ School. He also teaches part-time in the Political Science Department of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Dave has a BA in philosophy from Assumption College, MA in political science from Boston College and a Juris Doctor degree from New England School of Law.