David Gibson - CEO
David is a Canadian born British Citizen living in London with deep operational consulting experience and a love of business, retail, food service and finance.
Known as someone who 'gets things done' and an entrepreneurial 360 degrees thinker.
Experience
Worked at a business consultancy in Singapore, a Product and Service Innovation consultancy in London followed by an International Business management consultancy with Accenture specialising in organisation performance & workforce implementation (people, processes and IT).
Sample clients include
Shell, Microsoft, Airbus, British Telecom, Statoil, The Deputy Prime Ministers Office (UK) and Asda. Was a global lead for Accenture market positioning on Talent Management and workforce productivity enhancements. Also, contributing to an industry specific Accenture Global Point of View for the Oil and Gas sector.
Deep experience in working with senior leadership and running teams to effectively implement value-adding business improvements into workforces ranging from 25 to 100,000 people, thus quickly aligning strategic intent into strategic realisation.
Prior to completing a Masters at the London School of Economics, David supported his University by working in multiple facets within the food industry so has 'in the trench' experience of those operations. Published in The Journal of Policy, Regulation and Strategy for Telecommunication, Information and Media and also in the book entitled The Professional's Everyday Struggle to Ubiquitize Computers.
Interests
Food & culture - David has enjoyed food in over 35 different countries and over 130 different cities around the world. Major food influences include French, Italian, Turkish and Asian for the savoury side and German, French and Austrian for the pastry side.
The Outdoors. Coming from the Canadian Rockies, David feels at home skiing, playing ice hockey and mountain biking, while also spending time doing water sports like surfing, diving and water skiing / wake boarding.
Founder and participant of a charity which teaches business skills to under-privileged Zulu and Xhosa children in South Africa and Roma children in Romania.
