E. David Crockett : California VC from DCL E. David Crockett , PhD EE'67, after a long career in technical and operational positions in a variety of high tech firms, is now a VC with Aspen Ventures. E. David Crockett was always good at math and science. Coming from a family of economists and political scientists, he wanted to be different, so he decided to study engineering. As a child, he hung out the University of Colorado's electrical engineering department in Boulder. a.cs.uiuc.edu