The Mayor of Milton Keynes for 2017-18

David is currently Deputy Mayor of Milton Keynes Council and shadow portfolio holder for Economic Development and Enterprise (including ICT and Broadband delivery. David has been the councillor for the Danesborough ward since 1990 during which time he has held numerous committee chairs and represented MK Council on a number of outside bodies including The Stables Theatre, MK Partnership, schools governing bodies and MK Marketing

Socitm is the association for ICT and related professionals in the public and third sectors. We offer networking and peer support, professional development, and access to research and consultancy on a wide range of policy and technology issues

Business Director of the Milton Keynes Education Trust, a Multi Academy Trust (MAT) with a number of Academies at secondary and primary level which together achieve the maximum efficiencies through shared services - and sponsorships

David is a professional business development manager with wide ranging, successful experience in delivering solutions to the public sector, project and business management. He is a project delivery manager specialising in new business propositions, business change, project governance, project documentation, aspects of procurement and commercial models. He is also an experienced business case author and market analyst.David has a track record in both public and private sectors including work in IT, telecoms, healthcare, police and emergency services and business change. He has excellent stakeholder management, communication, and team working skills and is a qualified marketing and business development professional with a Business Degree, an MA and an MBA.

Manager Government Strategic Development (Local Government & Associated 'Community Networks')Devise marketing strategies and relevant sector rich propositions to maximise company penetration.Devise and implement Hi-Touch contact strategy (political and business)Represent Cable & Wireless on numerous Industry, Technology and Political bodiesProduct Development: contribute to the whole process, from proposal through to business plan.Field support: propose and implement the agreed product and marketing strategiesDevise and manage Marketing Communication strategy relevant to local government marketMeasure and monitor the portfolio performance of the 'product proposition' rangeDevise and manage field sales training programmeExperienced and frequent exhibition and conference speakerInvestigate competitors, new services / products and new areas of businessResourceful and experienced committee member and tactician Research customer requirements and gather market intelligence to determine the suitability of existing product propositions and services. Identify new opportunities

During this period C&W won major business with Surrey CC (The SWAN network), Somerset Network and the E2B Network (East of England Broadband Network) - plus numerous others

Key responsibilities/achievements:Business Development Manager for the TRACAR development project (Vehicle Tracking and International Container Monitoring development)General Manager Videoconferencing. Developing marketing opportunities and product life cycle management for this rapidly growing market. Overseeing sales activities and negotiating and managing install and maintain outsource arrangements.Managing the development of product packages and customer loyalty/retention initiatives tailored to specific identified sectors within the general business market (i.e. to companies of £10M turnover and above)Developing a strategy for and subsequently managing the broad base of activity within the local government sectorManaging the sale of parts of the fitted base of Customer Premises Equipment (PBX) business to third party purchasersManaging the successful conversation of the obsolete base of telephone systems to a modern equivalentManaging all Marketing Communications activities (Literature, PR, Conferences, Direct Mail and Promotions) of the small business systems, PBX customer premises sector of Mercury's fitted base.Managing the successful launch and follow up support and promotion of the VMX/Octel range of Voice Mail/Voice Processing systems through the PBX Systems DivisionDeveloping packaged applications for 'bundled' products to specific market nichesDeveloping market sector strategy initiatives in-house and with 'business partners'

Managing all aspects of Telephone Rentals' marketing activities within the Time and Security Systems Division; Market Research, New Product Development and New Product Launches of various telephone systems, time recording systems and security systems.General marketing support activities through a period of Telecommunications liberalisation and the rapid expansion of the Telephone Rentals operation.

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