David Jack

David has spent his entire working life in the IT sector – initially programming software, building networks, and supporting customer IT systems – he went on to serve on the executive board of two software consultancy firms specializing in Purchase to Pay and Professional Service Automation. This was no accident. Fascinated by computer software during his formative teen years, he could be found coding games and database applications on a small home computer into the early hours. Hooked – there really was no other career path. He was a geek before he knew what a geek was.

A sworn enemy of duplicated effort and inefficiency, matching the right solution to a given problem has been his drive since before finding a career. Spending his days during the summer months chopping wood and landscape gardening, even there he was constantly looking for a more efficient way to accomplish a given task. That has been and remains his personal drive.

As the newest member of our expanding European P2P team, David brings to Velocity 36 years of experience in the IT industry with over 24 of those years working in CRM, project management, operations management, implementations, staff and customer training and 20 of those years directly involved in purchase to pay and PSA implementations for global organizations. A key strength that overarches this background is David’s ability to clarify, understand and explain things in plain terms, which means being on the same page from the start and every step of the way until the project is delivered.

Other interests
Based in Aberdeen, Scotland – when he’s off the clock, David can be found strumming his guitar (sometimes accompanied on the ukulele by his 13-year-old daughter), camping, cycling or hiking in the hills, swimming in the sea or finding reasons to buy more woodworking and landscaping tools. That is, if his daughter doesn’t hijack him to build a stick fort in the woods.

Favourite quote
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” – Oscar Wilde