David Hitchcock

Senior Leader, experienced in both transactional and manufacturing organisations, specialising in large corporate turnarounds.

Global role responsible for the Envista/Danaher Business System across the dental business in germany, North America and Brasil.

• Identify potential new products and services, as well as potential improvements to existing services across the business and manage these ideas from conception, to market, implementing continuous improvement strategies. This includes innovation and investigation of new applications and ideas, new technologies and technologies used by other industries to continuously improve our customer value proposition, retain revenue and reduce customer attrition.

• Responsible for all DMAIC/DFSS/LEAN/KAIZEN project implementations in ADT South Africa. • Lead a team of full time continuous improvement experts to drive and instil a culture of continuous improvement across the organisation. • Training of Green and Black Belts, mentoring of belts to certification and ensuring sustainable returns through all projects implemented.

IT Manager for the Coastal Branches of ADT Security.

Leader of 3 IT departments, London, Amsterdam and Prague. Providing consulting and project management services to the concession projects in Tallinn (Estonia), Sofia (Bulgaria), Guayaquil (Ecuador) with appr. 25 direct reports plus outsourcing and contractual responsibilities.

Statistics, MSA, FMEA, LEAN, DOE, Multiple Regression...

Economics, Finance, Business Management, Strategy