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David S. Cohen, Esq. is the General Counsel of Infinite Athlete, a sports technology startup. With Infinitem Athlete, he provides strategic business, administrative,  and legal advice and service both the sports technology startup and Biocore, its sports biomechanical testing subsidiary. He served as Head of Player Operations of the Alliance of American Football, and for five years, held the role of General Counsel of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa, Florida. He is a licensed California attorney and a National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) Certified Athletic Trainer. David is also a Professional Ski Instructors of America certified alpine ski instructor.

Before joining the Buccaneers, David spent nine years overseeing the legal department for the Los Angeles Angels and AM830 KLAA and nine years working as an Athletic Trainer in the Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, and Montreal Expos organizations. His peers in the Association Corporate Counsel (ACC) selected him as a the 2022 ACC Member of the Year and 2013 ACC “Top 10 Thirty-Something”. The Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society honored him as the "2001 Minor League Baseball Athletic Trainer of the Year." He was a 2014, 2016, and 2017 Tampa Bay Business Journal Top Corporate Counsel Awards finalist.

David is a 2015 inductee of the West Virginia University College of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences Hall of Fame. While working in-house for the Angels and Buccaneers, David was responsible for drafting and negotiating legal and business terms of contracts with sponsors, vendors, employees, season seat holders, and suite licensees. He oversaw all organizational litigation and has significant experience managing complex and class action lawsuits. David also oversaw human resources, security, insurance, compliance, and privacy functions for the Buccaneers.

David earned a B.S in Exercise Physiology/Athletic Training and an M.S, in Community Health Promotion from West Virginia University School of Medicine in Morgantown, West Virginia. He also holds a Juris Doctor from California Western School of Law in San Diego, California. David also completed Major League Baseball Scouting Bureau’s Scout Development Program. David also serves on the Board of Directors of the United States Assocaiton of Blind Athletes (USABA), a paralympic high performance organization. USABA is the sanctioning body for two paralympic sports – Goalball and Blind Soccer.

David is a leader in the ACC and is past Chair of ACC’s Network Leadership Counsel. In the past, David served as President of ACC’s Tampa Bay Chapter, Chair of the ACC Sports & Entertainment Committee, Vice-Chair and Secretary of ACC’s Network Leadership Counsel, as well as ACC-SoCal Chapter Vice-President, Board of Directors Member, and Chair of its In-House Counsel Conference Committee. He has also served on the NATA’s Professional Responsibility in Athletic Training committee and has had had many articles published in NATA News and NATA’s Sports Medicine Legal Digest.