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David Petherick - Managing Director

David is responsible for the overall management of Russian Communications, and focuses his energy upon the marketing and strategic development of the business.

He was born in Edinburgh in 1964, and educated at George Heriot's School and at Edinburgh University where he was an editor, designer and photographer for the award winning Student newspaper.

His early career was involved in professional design and publishing, which became more focused upon advertising and marketing, with freelance work undertaken for agencies and clients directly. He often used his Russian language during time spent working as the Communications Director in the Edinburgh International Festival, (winning several major arts awards) as part of the Richard Demarco Gallery and Theatre's programmes.

Often having over 50 international groups coming under his wing, many from eastern Europe, his administrative experience, interpersonal and communications skills, as well as his personal ability to implement computer solutions as productive management information tools, provide a deep and variegated range of experience to his role at Russian Communications.

David has worked in the advertising, publishing, and environmental industries, and has appeared as an expert witness on gathering business information. He founded the information company NewsBase, the television joint venture BBTV, and continues to act as strategist and director for Clarocada, communications strategy company he founded in 1985. He contributes to several learned and popular journals and publications, including those published by the EBRD, and speaks his native English, Russian, basic Spanish and 'terrible' Portuguese and French.

He has become known for his work developing personal and corporate online presences as The Digital Biographer, and maintains a blog about language related matters at Speaka's Plain English.

He is married with one daughter, and enjoys open-top motoring, hard work, whisky, visual art, and everything Russian.