David had a full career in the Military, retiring as a Colonel in 1999. He went on to become a Managing Director in Tarmac and eventually being headhunted to become CEO in the Fire & Rescue Service before retiring for a second time. That retirement lasted all of 2 months and David took on the Management of two Engineering/Oil & Gas businesses in the North West and East of England for the German Industrial Services enterprise Germanischer Lloyd (GL). The company asked him to take over as Country Manager in South America, based in Brazil specialising in Oil & Gas and Maritime Operations and managing the integration of the GL businesses into a new entity, DNV GL.
David returned to the UK in 2015 and has since devoted his time to a number of non-executive roles in Engineering SMEs, the NHS, where he is a Board Member of the Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Hospital Trust and education, as a co-opted governor at Charlton School.
David is also currently working with a Nigerian company to develop a Petroleum refinery in the country and his commercial interests are in Strategy, Profit and Loss, Audit and Risk and the Management of Change.
