David Gill was appointed Managing Director of St John’s Innovation Centre in November 2008. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director of ETCapital Limited, following his tenure 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.
Having read 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). As Head of Technology and Innovation, he set up and ran the Innovation & Technology Unit at HSBC Bank in London.
David has published research into the funding of technology based growth businesses overseas, including India, Germany and the US.
