Work
Organizations, platforms and the systems that hold them together.
The work spans several organizations and initiatives, connected by a common philosophy: build the invisible foundations of an institution with the same seriousness as its visible outputs.
Higher Education
Zaag University
- Role
- President and Vice-Chancellor
- Status
- development
- Period
- Founded and current
A new university being developed with a distinctive academic model, governance framework and long-horizon institutional design.
The challenge
Design and build a university that is academically serious, operationally disciplined and durable across generations.
The approach
Sequence the invisible foundations — governance, academic authority, operating model, financial architecture — before the visible ones.
The system
An integrated institutional model that couples academic programs with a resilient governance and operating framework.
David's contribution
President and Vice-Chancellor. Direct responsibility for institutional design, executive leadership and long-term strategy.
Institutional Ecosystem
QED Groups
- Role
- CEO and President
- Status
- active
- Period
- Ongoing
A group building ventures, systems and platforms across sectors — with a shared operating philosophy of building things intended to matter.
The challenge
Establish a coherent institutional home for a portfolio of ventures without collapsing them into a single business identity.
The approach
Develop a shared operating architecture and governance model; allow individual pillars to retain sector-specific character.
The system
A holding structure with defined pillars, common operating standards and a distinct cultural model across the group.
David's contribution
CEO and President. Direct responsibility for the group, its pillars and the operating architecture that connects them.
Selected projects
Elsewhere across the portfolio
Additional advisory, policy and systems work — summarized here, not duplicated from the operational sites of each organization.
Public Systems
Healthcare & Emergency-Service Systems
Advisor · Practitioner · Multi-year
Ongoing work on the operating systems that make healthcare and emergency response reliable — where the failure mode is not academic.
A note on status
Each initiative is labeled explicitly — concept, planning, development, pilot, active or completed. Ambition without accurate status is a marketing posture; the intent here is a candid picture of where each piece of work actually is.