DAVID NICHOLLS

David joined Restrata from MiX Telematics, a global NYSE-listed technology leader, where he led Sales and Marketing for the MENA Region after successfully growing the business into emerging markets. David is currently part of the prestigious and highly selective LEAD Programme at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

David started his professional career in the British Army where he served with the Rifles Infantry regiment consistently ranking in the top percentile of his peer group. At the age of twenty-four he commanded a Platoon on operations in the most volatile and highly contested part of Helmand, Afghanistan. David planned and executed the full spectrum of operations receiving two awards for excellence. After five years’ service, he left the British Army as a Captain and joined the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory ‘Dstl’ shaping future Government technology procurement.

David’s spare time is spent travelling the region or taking part in extreme events such as the Marathon des Sables ‘MdS’, the world’s toughest footrace, which he ran in 2016.