Bio

David is one of the world’s leading TMT analysts and entrepreneurs. David jointly founded Durlacher plc, a technology & telecommunications investment bank that achieved a market capitalisation in excess of $3 billion. In 1995, with Mike Lynch, he co-founded and financed Autonomy Corporation. The company was eventually sold to Hewlett Packard for $11 billion. In 2000, he floated 365 Corporation plc on the LSE and it achieved a peak stock market valuation of approximately $1 billion. 365 Corporation was de-merged and 365 Media was sold to BSkyB PLC. David also developed and funded Demon Internet, the UK's first leading consumer Internet service provider, which was sold to Thus PLC (the Telecoms group) for $100 million.