David Dawson CA, Associate Director -

David qualified at Coopers & Lybrand and has had extensive experience at board level in the food manufacturing, retail and IT sectors with United Biscuits, Grand Met, Courtaulds Textiles and Actinic.

He joined Actinic in 1996, in its early stages, and helped the company grow to become the UK leader in the supply of packaged e-commerce software. During David’s tenure, Actinic raised capital from a business angel, a VC, and on the stock market when Actinic was listed on the London stock exchange.

The finance functions that David has led have been wholly focussed on the needs of the business and he has personally created or initiated profit improving systems in each of his roles. At FD Solutions he has:

• Provided a financial services company with the internal controls necessary to achieve rapid growth.
• Produced forecasts for two retail groups sufficient for them to achieve greater finance facilities or investment.
• Assisted a software company to re-finance its MBO.