Currently, David is a Director of Pacific Edge Biotechnology Ltd, of South Island Partnering for Innovation, and the University of Otago Applied Sciences Advisory Board. He has served on the Boards of numerous commercial and charitable organisations, including Arthur Barnett Limited, Mercy Hospital, Leeds Financial Initiative, and the External Advisory Group, Crown Company Ministerial Advisory Unit. He has delivered numerous courses on behalf of the Institute of Directors in both New Zealand and the UK. In Britain, Leeds Business School, of which he was Dean, was the largest IoD franchise outside London.

David has spent most of his career in consulting, including extensive periods with Korn/Ferry International, PA Consulting Group and Sibson. At PA he was a Partner and Head of the Management Development Practice. At Sibson he led the development and delivery of more competitive approaches to a range of human capital management practices, especially performance management, recruitment, training, incentivisation and succession.

David has also been involved in a range of entrepreneurial activities. He and his partners bought two small, under-performing businesses - The Impact Programme and Winmark Limited. The Impact Programme (now CIO Connect) is the UK’s leading organization dedicated to the professional and personal development of Chief Information Officers and their senior executives. Winmark is a B2B market research and development company. David chaired the board of each company, made the necessary personnel and other changes and successfully concluded the profitable sale of both businesses.