The Speakers
David Gill has been Managing Director of St John’s Innovation Centre since December 2008. Before that, he was a director of ETCapital Limited, following a year as a Sloan Fellow at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in California. He is also an official Visitor at the Institute for Manufacturing at the University of Cambridge.
After reading English at the University of Cambridge, David qualified as a barrister before working in corporate finance for both US and UK banks, including Chase Investment Bank, Greenwell Montagu and Midland Bank plc (later HSBC). He set up and ran HSBC’s Innovation & Technology Unit in London.
David is part of a research team which has analysed the funding of technology-based growth businesses overseas, and is currently working on a report examining the situation in India. The team's first report, published in March 2000, looked at the US experience. Subsequently, reports have covered Israel (2002), Germany (2003) and Britain (2007).
