David Singleton

A brief biography.

David Singleton

David was born on the 22nd of November 1960 at Middlesex hospital, London. His mother is Canadian and he had dual British/Canadian citizenship. He loved Canada and spent many summers there with his grandmother to whom he was very close. When I met David in 1985 he had just finished University and started working at Triad in Guildford as a programmer/analyst on various banking and defence projects.

We moved to Norway in 1986 where we lived for 4 years. While there, he worked as a Product manager for a Retail Banking product and learned to speak Norwegian. In 1990 we moved to Japan where he completed an MBA in Marketing at the International University of Japan (1990-92).

We then moved back to the UK and moved into 'Littlebrook' in Pepperharrow Road, Godalming. From 1992 to 1995 David worked for Admiral Management Consulting as a business and software consultant. He then went into business for himself and he and I started up Khodes Consulting together. Through Khodes he worked as an Internet and Product Design Consultant for clients such as Reuters and Financial Times Online. He was also an associate Technology Analyst with Bloor Research in 1998 and 1999, publishing two books on Network Computing and Software Development Tools.

In 1999 he met Bill Kirkwood and together they set up Equator-Net which was an on-line travel booking company. This was later sold it to Travelstore.com and David stayed on with them for a short time as R&D director. He soon wanted to start something new so he left Travelstore and moved to Belgium to concentrate on a new project for web-site performance and availability monitoring. He contacted Bill again and together they formed Site Confidence in October 2000 and soon after we moved back to the UK.

After a slow start, Site Confidence grew to become a very successful business. Unfortunately, David died suddenly on November 16th 2001. Site Confidence was sold to the NCC Group in 2006.