Non-Executive Director for Holiday Extras®
After reading Politics Philosophy and Economics at Oxford David joined Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co in London as an articled clerk in 1970, qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1973
For the next ten years he worked mainly in London but with two year spell in New York providing the whole range of professional accounting services - accounting, auditing, tax, corporate finance, M&A support and insolvency!
David also ran the Firm's training programme for two years in the early eighties, which led to (as a "part time" activity) responsibility for delivering senior management training for about ten years!
In 1984 he became a partner and opened a new office in Maidstone, where they built a staff of 125 by 1989. He also took over responsibility for HR for the south region. Then ran the Cambridge office (by then we had become KPMG) returning to London to be UK marketing director.
In 1993 David returned to the UK Industrial Markets business (managing it for a couple of years) mainly working with large multinational listed companies.
David is now retired and enjoy travelling mainly to New Zealand (annual trips) but also to other countries around the world. He has been married for over 30 years to Penny and has two grown up sons, William and Rupert.
David has a great love all sports and plays golf badly (but still well enough to beat Gerry sometimes).
FREE customer support 0800 093 5478