David Ballard, CEO

David became CEO of Northdoor on 1st July 2010. Prior to that, as consultancy director, David led a team that cares about its clients’ businesses and whose approach is always to ask ‘how can we help?’ He sees his role as one of building a team with a broad range of expertise and a single culture of responsibility and a proactive attitude. He believes it is extremely important for clients to be able to trust the team’s business understanding as well as its IT knowledge and skills.

David was responsible for developing the consultancy team’s strategy, overseeing the delivery of client projects and managing key client relationships, where he plays an active part in contributing to clients’ IT plans. In addition he played a key role in developing the future vision for the Northdoor group.

David became consultancy director at Northdoor in 1995 when Firecrest, his boutique IT consultancy for the insurance industry, was acquired by Northdoor. He had already worked at Northdoor in the first two years of its existence, before leaving to gain experience running the front-office IT for a subsidiary of insurance brokers Marsh in the US and London.