David Willson, Chief Executive Officer

David Willson

Chief Executive Officer

Diamond Consulting Limited

Location
Korea (South) - Seoul
Education
Master's degree, Master in Commercial Law (Intellectual Property)
Experience
30 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :30 years, 4 Months

Chief Executive Officer at Diamond Consulting Limited
  • Hong Kong - Central
  • My current job since January 1994

- A wide range of business consulting across areas including strategy, sales, digital and technology and in more than 50 countries.

- Substantial experience at various clients leading teams of up to 40 people in Finance, Operations, General Management and Software Development.

- Consulting focus on using technology as an enabler for new business processes, products and efficiencies and for enabling better client services.

- Consult to a wide range of companies in various countries and industries ranging through banking, insurance, funds management, biotech, legal, accounting, intellectual property, property management, hearing devices and others.

- Systems implementations across an extensive variety of areas including ERP, Document management, reporting, financial systems (including COA, AR and AP and financial and financial management reporting), knowledge management systems, client relationship management, KPI development, process automation, big data and data analytics.

Associate Professor at Shih Chien University
  • Taiwan - Taipei
  • January 2017 to December 2019

For two years I was appointed as an Associate Professor lecturing in Commercial Law, Management Accounting, Business Systems, Branding & Marketing, Innovation Management and Business Management at both undergraduate and MBA levels, as well as coaching students for International Business Case Competitions.

Chief Executive Officer at Imagine Software Limited
  • Australia - Sydney
  • January 1994 to June 2016

I founded this company to support my consulting practice and for over twenty years we specialized in building bespoke software systems, with a particular focus on web-based software. Clients included banks, insurance firms, major accounting, law and IP firms, property management firms, education institutions and multi-nationals together with a large array of diverse smaller businesses across many fields.

Education

Master's degree, Master in Commercial Law (Intellectual Property)
  • at University Of Melbourne
  • July 2005
Higher diploma, Graduate Diploma in Managing Legal Organisations
  • at University Of Melbourne
  • June 2004
Master's degree, Executive MBA
  • at Bond University
  • June 2001
Higher diploma, Graduate Diploma in Managing Superannuation Funds
  • at Macquarie University
  • April 1993

Specialties & Skills

Entrepreneurship
Financial Systems Implementation
Business Systems Implementation
Digital Strategy
Business Strategy
Management Reporting & Analysis
Leadership
Technology Implementation
Business Operations
Financial Reporting & Analysis
Business Consulting
Strategy Consulting
Digital Strategy Consulting
Project Management
SQL Scripting & Databases

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Languages

English
Native Speaker
Chinese
Intermediate

Hobbies

  • Mentoring & Youth Education
    As you can see in my resume, I have consistently volunteered my entire working life to mentor start-up businesses and university students and to further educational reform for youth, including co-Founding the first Social Benefits Corporation in Taiwan, that was focused on entrepreneurship education for disadvantaged youth. We ran over 4,000 students through our programs.