• Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants - CA(M)
• Fellow Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, UK - FCCA
• Approved Company Auditor

David is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a Chartered Accountant with the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and an approved Company auditor by the Ministry of Finance Malaysia. David carries with him commercial experience having acted as Financial Controller for GE Engine Services Malaysia, and CFO of a furniture manufacturer listed on Bursa Malaysia.

His practice career has involved him as an auditor in Ernst & Young where he started his career and he also had a stint as consultant with Andersen Business Consulting. Further to his career in the Big Four, he was the head of an audit unit of approximately 50 staff in Crowe, where he acted as team lead on assurance related assignments of public listed companies and large SMEs covering a wide range of industries, initial public offering exercises, technical and training matters and other special assignments. He was subsequently brought into PKF to lead and grow the assurance division. He has been with Moore Malaysia for close to a decade, looking after forensic investigations, IT, training and methodology matters in addition to his professional works as an auditor.

He has been called on to conduct seminars on accounting standards for external clients as well as internal trainings on audit methodology and accounting standards. He is Six Sigma Green Belt certified and was a member of the ACCA FRS Committee. David has also co-written a book on Private Entity Reporting Standards in Malaysia, published by CCH. He is also one of the quality reviewers for Moore Global.