ST. PETERSBURG, FL, August 01, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to name David J.P. Meachin a Lifetime Achiever. An accomplished listee, David Meachin celebrates many years' experience in his professional network, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes he has accrued in his field. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
David Meachin has served on public SEC-reporting company boards for 16 years, during which time he has been a Member of the Executive Committee of the Board, Chairman of the Audit Committee, and Member of the Compensation and Governance Committees. He has served on the boards of Lyondell Chemical Company (NYSE), Millennium Chemicals, Inc. (NYSE), and The Ground Round (NASDAQ), as well as on the board of an Indian Emerging Growth Fund, and is currently a Director of FOCoS Innovations Corp - a Florida based enterprise IT-Healthcare focused company, and a member of the Advisory Board of SCIC. He serves or has served on a number of non-profit organizations' boards as Chairman, Vice Chairman or a Director, including the British American Educational Foundation and University of Cape Town Fund in the US. He is a member of The Economic Club of New York, the National Association of Corporate Directors, the American College of Corporate Directors, the Tampa Bay Area Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Florida Venture Forum. He is also a member and former Governor of the Union Club in New York, a member and former Governor of the Misquamicut Club in Watch Hill, Rhode Island, the Oxford & Cambridge Club in London, The Pilgrims of the United States, the Harvard Clubs of New York and Tampa, and the Feather Sound Country Club in St. Petersburg, Florida.
In 1991 David Meachin founded Cross Border Enterprises, www.crossborderent.com, an internationally-oriented financial advisory and strategic consulting firm that assists IT and technology focused companies with their investment banking (M&A and financing) and their C-suite strategic business development needs. Previously he served for 10 years as a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch & Company in New York after being associated with Salomon Brothers in New York and London and with Smith, Barney & Co. in New York and Tokyo. He started his career as a Project Engineer for Humphreys and Glasgow Ltd., a London-based international chemical plant contracting company.
David Meachin is a frequent speaker and forum participant on issues of corporate governance, private equity and investment banking at Director Conferences and at university Business and Law Schools in the US and internationally. He has lived and worked in New York, Tokyo, London, Paris, South Africa, and Zimbabwe and traveled extensively on business in the U.S., Canada, Europe, China, India, South East Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Southern Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Mr. Meachin, who was born in Devon, England and spent his formative years in South Africa, is a citizen of both the US and the UK. He received his MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School. He holds graduate qualifications from Cambridge University and the French Petroleum Institute, Paris (which he attended as the Total Oil Company Scholar from South Africa) and Chemical Engineering and Physical Science degrees respectively from the University of Cape Town, where he served on the Students' Representative Council (SRC), and the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, where he was awarded a SA Breweries scholarship. He matriculated (First Class) from Hilton College in Kwa-Zulu Natal.
Listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World and Who's Who in Finance. Throughout his prolific career, Mr. Meachin has been awarded on many occasions for his work in the field. Since the late-1980s, Mr. Meachin has been featured in many editions of Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in the East, and Who's Who in America.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to his profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, David Meachin has been featured on the Marquis Who's Who Lifetime Achievers website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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