David leads the research agenda in the Centre for Better Managed Health and Social Care and works closely with the executive education team. He is founder and managing director of Eutropia Ltd, providing management consultancy aimed at improving the traction of change processes, specialising in performance and risk management, informatics and governance. He is also an associate partner of Matrix Knowledge Group where he provides practical and thought leadership in information governance.

David spent five years in the NHS as a Strategic Health Authority (SHA) executive director of performance, and as Chief Information Officer (CIO). During this time, as well as achieving recognition as one of the highest performing SHAs, he also worked closely on national policy issues in both performance and IT. Prior to this, his experience covered most aspects of technology and corporate management in the telecom sector, including corporate strategy, corporate finance, marketing, delivery of major change programmes, IT and ten years of cutting edge research in materials science.

David is both a chartered engineer and chartered physicist, and studied Natural Sciences at Trinity College Cambridge, specialising in theoretical physics. He obtained his PhD from Edinburgh University working across materials science and engineering.