David is a founder and CEO of Welliba. He started his career at SHL in 1997 and has worked in the areas of psychometrics, behavioural science, talent management, people analytics, and employee experience across a wide range of roles over the last 25 years across North America, Europe and Asia. He is happiest being on the frontline of client centric technological and scientific transformation, and being able to participate in how the digital world has transformed the way in which we can create, use, and apply intelligent data for the good of people and organizations.
Prior to Welliba, he was the CCO of AON Human Capital overseeing sales, revenue, and client solutions globally in the areas of talent assessment for selection, development, future of work, organizational performance, and total rewards. He led a team of 400 people in commercial and professional roles.
David joined AON in 2017 as a part of their acquisition of the cut-e, a digital talent assessment and psychometrics business he had co-founded. At cut-e, he built and led the firm’s global capability and footprint to a revenue of $30million per annum, have teams in 30 countries, working in 40+ languages assessing over 30 million people per annum in selection, development, upskilling, and learning contexts.
He holds a BA in Psychology from Trinity College Dublin Ireland and an MSc in Occupational Psychology from Queens University Belfast.

Welliba helps organisations unlock a better employee experience (EX) by moving beyond traditional employee listening and engagement technology solutions. We drive better outcomes for organisations and their employees by combining the best in behavioural science, human-centred technology, and robust data privacy measures. Responsible AI functionality, supported by Machine Learning, Generative AI and NLP, are embedded within the system to deliver a more efficient and intelligent solution for organisations and their HR, People and Culture teams, managers and employees. With a global team of leading experts in this field, we are disrupting the current thinking and approaches in the employee experience market. HR, People and Culture Teams, managers, and employees gain access to predictive data and personalised insights on their employee experience as well as advice on how to improve it. We can predict key people and business metrics such as flight risk, eNPS / loyalty, absenteeism, trust, and growth. This can inform which people programmes, tools & resources may have the best potential return and impact.