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David Lockhart is the founder and Managing Member of Coastal Vanguard LLC, an upper-echelon brand management, advertising, and marketing firm. With more than fifteen years of progressive experience spanning operations, corporate development, technology leadership, and executive management, David founded the firm on a single operating principle: that the brands which compound are the ones which pair long-arc strategic thinking with short-arc operating discipline.

His approach draws on deep expertise across business transformation, operational excellence, logistics strategy, technology integration, and artificial intelligence — the multidisciplinary grounding that lets the firm engage category leaders on the full operating system rather than any single functional lever.

David writes the firm's research, leads its client engagements, and is the principal voice in every engagement. The firm's work is built on a posture of senior partnership: a small number of clients, deeply staffed, on a quarterly minimum engagement. He holds the firm's commitments personally.