David has more than 25 years of executive experience in building, scaling, and transforming digital-focused retail businesses, including the last 15 years working in the US for Amazon.com Inc. (NYSE: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble Education Inc. (NYSE: BNED).

David has a strong track record of driving enterprise value through strategic and operational innovation and bringing to companies his multi-faceted executive experience across finance, management, sales, marketing, product development, business development, web services, logistics and supply chain management.

David joined Booktopia as Chief Executive Officer in May 2023 and was previously President of Digital Student Solutions (DSS) at Barnes and Noble Education, where he was responsible for the company’s direct-to-customer DSS segment. Before joining BNED, David was a senior executive with Amazon in the US and Europe. Within Amazon David held a number of leadership roles including General Manager Amazon Grocery and General Manager Amazon Photos. Prior to moving overseas David held senior finance positions at Coles Group, Shopfast and Optus.

David holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business from Curtain University and earned his MBA from Sydney University.