David Prais

	David's management experience lies in building fast-growing companies and aligning strategy and business plans having been in strategic planning for Gateway and Dell. He works with TV companies and advertising agencies delivering the action plans from strategy to execution.
Position:	Partner, Pembridge Partnership Limited
Role:	Specialist in corporate strategy , planning and growth in all creative sectors.
Contact:	david.prais@pembridge.net
Nationality:	British
Profile:	David Prais is a non-executive chairman of SML Wholesale Finance and is a director on a number of company boards, including Bellacor.com Inc, Blue Goose Design, Itch Ltd. and Windfall Films. He heads up business strategy and planning at Pembridge’s private sector clients. He specialises in supporting creative firms to achieve commercial success, profitability and shareholder value through specific guidance.
Professional Experience:	2001 – Pembridge Partners LLP - Co-founder and Managing Partner. Pembridge invests time and money exclusively in creative firms to help their owners build and realise value. Pembridge has raised or invested directly >£25m since start-up, achieving over 40% IRR. 1997 – 2000 Chumbo.com - Co-founder and President. As the largest volume provider of software via the internet, David build and saw the company through two rounds of investments and one merger prior to exiting personally the company had a turnover in excess of $20m. 1994 – 1997 Gateway, Inc - Global Marketing Director. The world’s leading consumer direct marketer of personal computers. David was responsible for the global marketing strategy, managing $100m in advertising spending to drive over $5b in sales. 1990 -1993 Dell Computer Corp – European Marketing Manager. Working with Michael Dell, developed the European business and global expansion model, including, starting the Corporate Marketing model, which has made Dell famous