David Brown FCA, Trustee

A highly experienced Chartered Accountant, David Brown qualified in 1964, when he was appointed Chief Accountant, then Financial Director, of Biggs Wall & Co Civil Engineers, employing some 700 people, and became Chief Executive of their modernisation subsidiary company.

David then worked as Chief Accountant for Ashby & Horner, the oldest building company in London, working alongside the Financial Director of Bovis. He was then appointed Financial Director of IFR, one of the most profitable companies of the Thomson Group, providing weekly banking information worldwide.

In 1989 David became a Partner in an accountancy practice and founded his own practice in 1996. He was appointed Chairman of a Christian Conference Centre and also a company selling right-to-buy mortgages and recently became a Financial Director of a development company. In addition, he is a Trustee of several charitable companies including The Family Matters Institute.

David is married to Joyce, has two children and four grandchildren. He is a school governor, lay preacher and sings with a choir in the Albert Hall.