Ability and Experience

Previously a Corporate Adviser at Macquarie Bank, Standard Chartered Bank and Prudential Bach Securities David has deep understanding of the requirements of successful investment operations and what it takes to create, build, sustain and strengthen them.

Nuture and Value the Human Assets

Regarding the need for nurturing and valuing the human assets within, David has learned the necessity of working originally with people whom one likes, trusts and admires and who take inner responsibility for their own actions and results. He has also learned how difficult it is to change behaviour in people made of the wrong stuff, and for that reason is very careful when selecting the right people and organisations to work with or join Performance Consultants.

Implant from Within

He firmly believes that people and investment management transcends into personal motivation when the rules of behaviour that people are expected to follow are implanted from within, rather than set from above; that awareness and responsibility are at their height when these rules are set in sympathy with that small voice that exists inside all of us, which tells us what it is in our lives that will make us become trully and fully alive.

Integrate Strategy, Leadership and Sustainability

David's focus for Performance Consultants is for us to be a pre-eminent integrated strategy, leadership and sustainability firm, making companies and organisations champions of development inside and out. In doing so he places us in the best position to truly assist organisations to deeply engage in global integration and to cope with the emergence of a world struggling to sustain current forms of economic growth.

Work Within Your Own Circle of Competence

His preference is to reach this goal by directly owning a concentrated group of businesses that work within our own circle of competence and interest. He expects those business to manage themselves, generate cash and consistently earn above average returns on capital from being truly outstanding in their own right - irrespective of their involvement with us.

Concentrate

His investment and operation strategy does not prescribe diversification, if anything it calls for concentration, and if not of our portfolio of interests, then at least of our minds, goals and intentions.