David is a senior executive with more than 30 years of experience leading growth, transformation, and turnaround initiatives across media, information services, and digital businesses.Throughout his career, David has built a strong track record of delivering P&L performance and revenue growth in structurally disrupted markets, guiding organisations through complex business model transformation while maintaining commercial and operational discipline.
David brings deep expertise in scaling digital, subscription, and data-driven revenue streams, and has repeatedly demonstrated the ability to reposition legacy businesses for sustainable growth in fast-changing competitive environments.David has led complex, multi-product organisations spanning both B2B and consumer markets, combining commercial strategy with hands-on operational execution. His experience extends across the full value chain of business transformation — from turnaround and restructuring, to digital monetisation, to the diversification of revenue through new data and subscription-based models.
Alongside this commercial focus, David has a strong reputation for building high-performance executive teams and instilling a culture of accountability, financial governance, and performance discipline.
David’s leadership style is grounded in a belief that sustainable business success depends on the combination of rigorous financial and operational management with strong, empowered leadership teams — a philosophy reflected in his consistent focus on people and performance throughout his career.
As a Partner at Horton International, David draws on this extensive operating experience to advise clients on senior executive search and leadership advisory mandates across media, information services, and digital sectors — bringing a practitioner’s perspective to help organisations identify and secure the leaders needed to navigate transformation and growth.
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