After studying Advertising & Marketing, David went on to spend the next few years working in Marketing & Event Management, before moving into scaffolding. David spent almost 20 years working for the leading Contract Scaffolding Company in Cape Town, with twelve of these years as a Director and two years as Joint-Managing Director.

With almost twenty years of experience in the scaffolding contracting and hire & sales industry, David has had extensive exposure to technically challenging commercial, industrial & residential scaffold projects, working on projects with construction budgets in excess of R 4 billion. This exposure includes project cost, performance, and profit structures.

As Joint-Managing Director of Alpine Scaffolding, David focuses largely on the following:

• New business procurement and relationship development.
• Business management, strategic planning and forecasting.
• Financial management & planning.
• Maintaining good corporate governance and compliance within the company.
• Interpretation of client specifications & technical designs & pricing of negotiated contracts and tenders.
• Implementation of successfully negotiated or tendered contracts and the successful delivery of these contracts, consistent with the client programme and in alignment with company profit expectations.
• Reviewing and costing of completed contracts to determine performance and profitability.
• Developing and implementing company policies relating to pricing, quality, service, health & safety and ethos.
• Development and implementation of advertising & marketing strategy.
• Conflict resolution