David Trenchard

David has had a long career in investment banking, capital markets communications and activist investing. Most recently he was working as an independent consultant and advisor in the fields of corporate governance, shareholder engagement and investment stewardship. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Integrum ESG Ltd, as well as a number of other private companies.

Prior to his career in asset management, David was a Senior Consultant at one of London’s leading capital markets communications advisory firms. He had previously spent 25 years in investment banking – mostly at Morgan Stanley – where he held various senior posts in equity sales, capital markets and investment banking in Europe, North America and Asia. Latterly at Morgan Stanley he was a London-based Managing Director in Equity Capital Markets and Head of Corporate Broking. David served two terms as a Member of Council at the IoD and also sat on the IoD’s Audit and Risk Committee