Dave Fracassa
Secretary, Al Fracassa Legacy Foundation
Dave has over 35 years of experience in the automotive component and systems supply industry. Dave’s career includes senior business development and sales leadership roles within major system integrators, with a strong focus on value-add components, emerging technologies and advanced manufacturing solutions.
During this time, Dave also severed as Executive Vice President of a Paris based investment banking firm specializing in transatlantic mergers and acquisitions within the automotive, commercial truck, and packaging sectors.
For more than 15 years, Dave has operated independently, representing a wide array of manufacturing and technology companies—primarily in Asia and US as Founder and President of DMF Partners a Global Business Development organization.
Dave earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Marketing from Michigan State University. Prior to that he attended Bishop Foley High School and along with his brother Rick, were members of the 1974 football team that lost in the Catholic League Championship game to the Brother Rice Warriors…the last victory for Coach Fracassa’s undefeated season in 1974 and first State Championship.
Dave is Al Fracassa’s son and in his role as secretary he is dedicated to upholding all that his father stood for, which deeply touch so many lives on and most importantly, off the field.
Coach’s Enduring Legacy
Some say Coach Fracassa belonged to Brother Rice. But perhaps the truth is this: Brother Rice belonged to him. Every player who raised a helmet in his locker room, every student who sought his compassion, every colleague who walked the halls beside him, every alumnus who still lives by his mottos decades later — every life he touched is part of the story of Al Fracassa.
We mourn his passing, but more than that, we celebrate a life lived with purpose, humility, and heart. He asked his players to “Do it better than it’s ever been done before.” And he did. In every season of his remarkable life – he truly did.