David is the Director of Underwriting and is responsible for the technical underwriting result and for setting underwriting policy for the TT Club.

After graduating in Microbiology David joined Freightliner (a British Rail subsidiary) as a Management Trainee. After a year's intensive training he had operational management positions in Birmingham, Dudley and finally Tilbury where he was Traffic Manager for three years. After joining Thomas Miller in 1989, David was involved in underwriting TT business in the Netherlands, Asia and the UK before becoming European Underwriting Director in 2006.

Whilst at Freightliner, David passed his Class 1 HGV licence and Certificate of Professional Competence. He was then qualified to manage and operate a UK fleet of road haulage vehicles, which together with his British Rail procedural training meant he was qualified for both modes of land based transport.

David also speaks good Dutch and conversational French.