David McIntosh is a shareholder and active Non-Executive Director of OmniPerception Limited, the UK’s leading player in advanced image recognition and facial biometrics. He was CEO of OmniPerception from February 2003 until his retirement from that role in November 2009. He is also Deputy-Chairman of the Intellect Association for Biometrics, a founding Director of the Security Innovation and Technology Consortium (SITC) and a Director and Trustee of the Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company.
Formerly Chief Executive Officer of broadcast electronics SME, Electrocraft Limited, David has a successful track record in fruitful partnership development and rapid business growth and a strong background in senior management in both the public and private sectors. From 1990 to 1996 he served the NHS as Chairman and General Manager of the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service and was a Director of the NHS in Scotland Management Development Group. Before this he spent twenty-years in senior management with textile multi-national Coats Patons plc, serving in the UK, South Africa, Spain, Portugal and Colombia, South America.
Educated at the Edinburgh Academy, Oxford University and The London School of Economics, David is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Fellow of the RSA, and a member of the Institute of Health Care Management and of the Royal Television Society. He speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese and French.
SITC Board Re-Election Statement (February 2010)
David is committed to the goals and vision on which SITC was founded and which SITC exists to deliver. He believes that his successful track record in senior management over the last 40 years and his extensive front line experience in the SME sector fits him well to contribute to SITC’s work and to help supply the needs of the member companies. He also has 10 years’ direct experience of working in the public sector and has a mature understanding of the special requirements of the public/private interface and its political complexities.
He recognises the UK security sector as a vital part of the UK economy with a potentially very promising future. However, he also believes that the sector does have gaps that need to be filled by an organization such as SITC. He believes that SITC must be, and will be, a leading catalyst and creator of opportunities for the UK Security Industry as a whole and for the SITC membership and customer community.
If re-elected as a director, David McIntosh will commit himself to working with the SITC team to make these goals a reality – to the benefit of SITC members, large and small, the industry as a whole and the customers that we serve.