David is an entrepreneur and had the privilege in accepting an invitation to 10 Downing Street to meet the UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, as being one of the top-twenty IT entrepreneurs of 2008.
He is an early pioneer of over-the-top IPTV (also CEO of Infinate Blu), has over a decade of experience in middleware technology and commercial business development. His vision and management skills led to recognition by UK Prime Minister, Gordon Brown in 2008, paving the way for IPTV use in education. Within Adult Education, David had an inclusion into the Government white paper of 2009 for providing new media opportunities for Informal Learning in the UK, that was approved and sealed by John Denham, MP.
David has extensive management experience, that has been predominantly within the IPTV and Content industry. He Spearheaded Government Education Projects in UK, Malaysia, Rwanda and Brunei. As well as this he created direct trade developments and sales in North and South America, EMEA and APAC, and securing licensing deals with the UK and US network TV channels as well as international language packs for pay TV from China, India, Brunei, Turkey, Poland, and Russia. Also negotiated content rights deals globally with Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, Setanta, Digiturk and many other international broadcasters.
He also has a great deal of technical understanding of Content Security, IPTV and Consumer User Interfaces, Systems Integration, IPTV Head-end systems, DVB de-multiplexing and Content Delivery Networks, with 10 years+ experience in IPTV and DVB Set Top Box Manufacturing and Deployment.
Together with two technology colleagues, David enabled the first dynamic over-the-top IPTV delivery of live television to a set top box in November 2004. After providing a test case IPTV and WiMax system to the Brunei Royal Family (after direct invitation), to expand upon the new technology ventures of the Sultan of Brunei.
As a published musician since 1988, and a multi-instrumentalist, David has release over 100 titles for both general release and TV/Film credits. He has also toured across the world playing to audiences from a few hundred to almost a hundred thousand.
David is also a qualified FA Coach and level 7 Referee, as well as holding a 2nd Dan black belt in Wado Ryu Karate, also holding black belt grades in both Kickboxing and Taekwondo. He also has conversational Mandarin skills due to spending many years working with Chinese nationals. Hoping to expand his language skills in time.