David Elston

David Elston is a practicing commercial solicitor with more than 35 years' experience of working in-house in the financial service sector and engineering, and is currently the company secretary for a life and pensions business and working as a consultant in other legal and commercial roles.  

He has extensive experience in regulatory law, complex corporate structures commercial law and has worked closely in the fields of strategy, business planning, risk management, intellectual property and with other disciplines including human resources, finance, actuarial and a number of technical areas in engineering and construction.

He is a trustee of Character Scotland, an educational charity formed in 2009 by a group of academics, educationalists and local entrepreneurs which promotes ways to encourage and support personal development and to support the cultivation and recognition of character attributes in Scotland, principally through schools and colleges.