David is the Chief Strategy, Sustainability and Governance Officer of CLP Holdings Limited. He is responsible for managing the investments and ventures that help support CLP’s growth strategy, the Group’s investments in South East Asia and Taiwan and the Group’s property development activities. In addition, he is the Group General Counsel of CLP Holdings, responsible for the provision of legal, corporate secretarial and insurance services across the Group. David joined the CLP Group in August 2007 as General Counsel and Company Secretary of EnergyAustralia (previously known as TRUenergy) and was appointed Director – Group Legal Affairs of CLP Holdings from 1 January 2009.  He became the Group General Counsel & Chief Administrative Officer on 30 September 2013. David joined CLP from Telstra Corporation Ltd. in Australia, where he held numerous senior legal positions including General Counsel Technology, Innovation & Product and General Counsel Telstra Asia/Telstra Mergers and Acquisitions.