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David Gill

Managing Director, St John’s Innovation Centre.

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 is part of a research team which has looked at 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, the team has published reports on Israel (2002), Germany (2003) and Britain (2007).