Job Title: Regional Director
Areas of Expertise:
MRICS Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying & Construction Cost Management
Certificate in Contract Law, HarvardX
Level 2 Certificate, Team Leading, Institute of Leadership & Management ILM
SQE Preparation Course (in progress)
David is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and accomplished Commercial Director with over 25 years industry experience with tier 1 main contractors.
David was regional director, responsible for Kier Construction’s Midlands business based in Birmingham having previously been commercial director with Bouygues UK business based in London and the Southeast. David has also held the position of commercial director with John Sisk’s Major Projects business for the UK.
David is also a board member of Constructing Excellence Midlands, a progressive membership organisation committed to improving business performance by driving innovation and best practise in the construction industry. Furthermore,
David has been Vice Chair of Governors, Chair of the Renumeration Committee & Chair of the Business & Finance Committee for an academy primary school.
Key Strengths
• Leading successful negotiations and strategy for closing out key legacy projects, disputes, bonds and insurance claims
• Providing entitlement position statements and settlement agreements
• Identification of opportunites & threats and implementation of commercial recovery strategies
• Successful recovery of entitlements through Adjudication both upstream and down.
• Establishing and Implementing business wide subcontract application and payment notification management system for tier 1 main contractor
• Establishing a UK Commercial & Legal Committee and Commercial Audit process for driving UK wide standards and improvements
• Managing successful restructuring
• Development of Business wide commercial reporting
• Leading on the successful contractual negotiations of £200m+ Great Ormand Street Redevelopment Contract
• Development and implementation of group wide monthly commercial reports
Employment History
2023 – Present Systech
2021 – 2022 Kier Construction Limited
2019 ¬– 2021 Bouygues UK Limited
2014 – 2019 John Sisk & Son Limited
1998 – 2014 Galliford Try Construction Limited
1996 – 1998 Joynes Pike & Associates Limited
Country of Residence: England
Primary Branch: East Midlands
Secondary Branch:
Systech