David Dickinson
Born in Chester, and educated at Watford Grammar School, Peterhouse
Cambridge and through Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, David spent
25 years in the brewing industry managing new-build projects for
Guinness, Whitbread and was a consultant to many other brewing
companies in the UK and overseas. Old brewery sites gave
opportunities for a career change to 15 years of property
development. A founding Director of Stanhope Properties, (a leading
1980s developer responsible for such London landmark projects as
Broadgate and Stockley Park), David was also founder Chairman of
the East London Training and Enterprise Council where he gained
extensive experience negotiating with Government on employment
issues and multi-billion pound budgets.
David helped pilot a Railway Act through
Parliament and has wide experience of giving evidence to public
inquiries, one relevant example being the "South Cambridgeshire
Settlement" now known as Camborne, and has given evidence to
Parliamentary Committees on employment and the environment. David
has been a trustee of The Guinness Trust and was Chairman of
the Guinness Trust Committee in 2007/08. He is chairman of Guinness
Developments Ltd and a board member of Guinness Housing.
David is chairman of the Daventry Strategic Regeneration
Partnership and is a director of Northamptonshire Enterprise
Ltd.