Dave Abrahams is a founding member and moderator of Boost, and an active member of the wider open-source community. He has been an ANSI/ISO C++ committee member since 1996, and has worked in the software industry since 1988. In 2001 He founded Boost Consulting , a company dedicated to providing professional support and development services for the Boost C++ libraries and associated tools.

Dave often shows up at C++ standards committee meetings on a bicycle. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his beautiful wife, Luann.