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David Clarke MBE
David Clarke spent nearly thirty years involved with IT systems, firstly in the supply side and then from 1995 to 2002 as a Chief Executive in the Virgin group of companies, and then Trinity Mirror plc, both companies being highly reliant on the use of IT based systems for their success. David became Group Chief Executive of the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, in May 2002 and was widely acknowledged as having transformed BCS into the customer-service oriented professional institute for the IT and Communications profession that it became. David was awarded an MBE for services to the IT Industry in the 2011 New Years Honours.