David has 25 years’ in-house experience, including with Apple, Rank Xerox and BT. For the 14 years until his retirement in 2018 he was with SITA, the Geneva-based, airline-owned telecoms and IT organisation.He was General Counsel there from 1999 – 2015 managing a team of 27 legal and 5 regulatory staff in Europe, U.S., South America, Middle East, Africa and Asia. He moved into the role of SITA’s Head of Compliance and Ethics in 2015. David is passionate about teamwork and relationship management and has been heavily involved in restructuring and corporate governance issues in recent years. In 2005, SITA’s Legal Department was short-listed for Legal Director Global Department of the Year Award.