David Rennie

Director of EMEA Product Development

David’s biography

David Rennie joined QinetiQ in January 2006 and appointed Director of EMEA Product Development. He also leads the New Business Accelerator division. He works across all EMEA business divisions and venture companies building and validating strategic investments, enhancing QinetiQ’s product development and supply chain delivery capabilities and accelerating new business start-ups from inception to market launch. His goal is to achieve a world-class product delivery capability across EMEA divisions and ventures and to significantly enhance the value of QinetiQ venture companies. David has been involved in the start up, supply chain creation and development of several venture companies including Quintel Technologies, Tarsier, GPS Telematics, Stingray Geophysical and ZephIR. He also developed and launched QinetiQ’s Corporate Product Development Framework.

Before joining QinetiQ, David was founder and Managing Director of Rennie Burns Consulting, a ventures and business start-up management consultancy, Partner and Head of KPMG Consulting’s High-Tech Sector in the UK, Vice President of Product Planning, Manufacturing and Logistics at EMI Music International and Managing Director of Personal Computer Products division in Europe for Digital Equipment Corporation.

David holds a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Strathclyde University and an MBA and Post Graduate Diploma in Management from Henley Management College.