HDC's Hospitality, Catering & Training Expert
David’s experience spans both the operation and learning within the Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism industries.
Having worked for 3 of the UK’s major brewers in developing catering concepts and brands (Beefeater, County Hotels and Harvester) giving him a good practical knowledge of business development and start-ups. David has also been CEO of a Swiss based hotel, sport and leisure group and operations manager of a premium UK restaurant chain.
Over the last 15 years, David has consolidated this knowledge into working in People Development. He has been CEO for 2 Global professional bodies for the hospitality industry. He now works as a visiting professor to Universities in China, Switzerland, USA and Spain as well as teaching in the UK.
David’s Tourism and Hospitality Consulting work has been carried out in many countries around the world. David holds a Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA), an MBA, is a Fellow of the Institute of Hospitality (FIH) and the British Institute of Inn keeping (FBII) is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (Chartered MCIPD) and is SFEDI qualified by the CBI to give business advice to SME’s in the UK. David published a book on Management and Leadership in 2006.
