David is a Director whose career in project finance spans over 14 years. He is involved in a variety of financial advisory, model build and model audit assignments around the world.
David joined Operis in March 2004 and led Operis’s North American office in Toronto between 2016-2018. He has been involved in a variety of model builds at all stages of projects from building models for bids, taking them through to financial close and for monitoring ongoing projects. In 2014 he closed over £1bn of projects in the UK and Europe.
In recent years, he has been particularly involved in advisory mandates in the transport and education sectors in the UK, advising a client in the procurement of rolling stock and advising bidders on 3 of the 5 Priority Schools batches.
He has managed teams on numerous model audits for projects under PPP frameworks particularly in social infrastructure and transport in the UK, Europe and North America. Outside PPPs, he has worked on many renewable energy projects, both before close and subsequently to analyse the impact of regulatory changes.
In 1993 David was on stage as part of the National Boys Choir of Australia, in Sydney, when it was announced they had been awarded the 2000 Olympic Games.