David joined the board in May 2020 and sits on the Education Committee. He was Director of Education for Buckinghamshire until 2000, having previously worked for five other Local Education Authorities. He was himself once a teacher. From 2001 he was Managing Director successively of a number of Education businesses: Amey Education, VT Education and Skills, HBS Education and Eteach. He has worked in public affairs and was for a while Business Development Director of the Times Education Supplement.
He retired in 2014 as Director and Chief Executive of AMC Ltd, a market leading executive recruitment consultancy working with Independent and maintained schools in the UK and with International schools world-wide.
David grew up in Exeter, attending Exeter School in the late 1960s; he has an MA(Hons), an MA and a PGCE. He is Chair of the Governors of the St. John’s Hospital Educational Foundation in Exeter, Chair of the Board of Bovey Tracey Paradiso Arts Ltd and is very active in his local community, Lustleigh on Dartmoor.
David’s partner, Jane, is a retired primary headteacher. He has two daughters, one a primary teacher, the other works in the theatre.
