David Levin was appointed as group chief executive in April 2005, having previously been chief executive of Symbian, a mobile phone software licensing company, since April 2002. He joined Symbian from Psion plc, the handheld computing company, where he was chief executive from February 1999. Prior to that, he spent five years with the international business-publishing group Euromoney Institutional Investor, as chief operating officer and before that as president of Institutional Investor in New York. Previously he worked with the venture capital group Apax Partners and with the consultancy firm Bain and Company for five years, mostly in Asia. David has an MBA from Stanford University and an MA from Oxford. David is also a member of the finance committee of the Oxford University Press, a department of Oxford University. Aged 45. |