John Davies - Author Profile

Managing Director, TDSi

A graduate in Chemistry from University of London, I began my working life at British Aerospace Military Aircraft Group in 1979. I left the UK in 1981 to work with Litton Industries Inc in Japan, Singapore and the USA working on Oil & Gas and Petrochemical projects. I left Litton in 1993 to return to South East Asia to establish a business for a Canadian environmental services company and negotiated a 20 year service support contract with the Malaysian government for the supply of air and water pollution monitoring data which could be used to prosecute polluters.

Returning to the UK in 1997, I took up a directorship at Zellweger Analytics a manufacturer of toxic gas detection equipment, and moved to a telecom software start up in 1999.

I joined TDSi in 2003 when it was owned by Norbain SD Limited and led the buyout of TDSi from Norbain in February 2005. TDSi manufactures electronic access control and integrated security systems. Export sales have grown from 40% of the business to 50+%.

TDSi opened offices in Hong Kong and Shenzhen in 2010 to support sales of our UK manufactured systems to the China market. I am active with the BSIA (British Security Industry Association) being Chairman of the Export Council from 2010 to 2013 and I am also an industry representative on the Security Sector Advisory Group (SSAG) for UKTI DSO.

Brief history John and the BSIA

John's expert topics:

Business turnaround

International Business

Development

Marketing

Strategic Planning 

Thought Leadership - Blogs and Broadcast

Security’s Role During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Track & Trace Security Module