From 1991 to 1995 he was a strategy consultant with Monitor Company in Cambridge, MA and Johannesburg, South Africa. Corporate strategy work included profit and revenue growth initiatives for global clients in the aerospace, retail, life insurance and platinum mining industries. The South African work was advising the newly democratic government on national competitiveness (based on Porter's Competitive Advantage of Nations) and increasing GDP growth rate. He personally presented the work to the President and the Cabinet. The work was heavily covered by South African media as well as internationally. In addition, David ran all of Monitor's worldwide training programes.
In late 1995 David returned to the USA and put together the venture backed deal that created Harvard Bioscience (which began as Harvard Apparatus at Harvard Medical School in 1901) becoming Co-Founder, President and a Director. Harvard Bioscience's products are used to advance life science research at virtually all pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and research universities worldwide. Their customers include two Nobel prizewinners and breakthrough scientific research using our instruments has been published in Nature (high-throughput drug discovery on nematode worms) and on the front cover of Nature Biotechnology (malaria eradication) and Transplantation (human islet transplantation for treating Type 1 diabetes). Through a combination of organic growth and over twenty acquisitions Harvard Bioscience has grown from $9m in revenues in 1996 to approximately $90m in 2006 and is highly profitable. Harvard Bioscience went public in December 2000. In 2004 Harvard Bioscience was ranked number three for revenue growth in the Boston Globe 100 index of publicly traded Massachusetts companies. In 2005 Harvard Bioscience was named one of America's Top 25 Fastest Growing Technology Companies by Forbes Magazine. David is a co-inventor on the patent Photoacoustic Spectroscopy Sample Array Vessel.
David lives in Dover, MA with his wife Diane and their three children. When not raising companies or children he enjoys growing organic fruit and playing rock guitar. He is a citizen of the United Kingdom and permanent resident of the United States.