David Wallace Pickton

Background

Pickton, David Wallace was born on May 28, 1954 in Manchester, Lancashire, England. Son of Sydney and Charlotte Hannah Pickton.

Education

Master of Arts, University Lancaster, 1978.

Career

Retail marketing, advertising manager Dunlop (NTS), Stockport, England, 1975—1976. Public relations officer Metropolitan Borough Of Stockport, 1978—1979. Account manager, planner Chetwynd Saints Advertising, Manchester, England, 1979—1981.

Lecturer, management trainer Blackwood Hodge Management CCtr., Northampton, England, 1981—1983. Sr, principal lecturer De Montfort University, Leicester, England, 1983—2000, head marketing department, since 2000. Director Isham Management Associate, Northampton, 1984—1993.

Regional chairman Marketing Education Group, East Midlands, England, 1987—1990. Registered marketing consultant Department Trade And Industry, England, 1988—1992. External examiner and advisor various University, since 1988, visiting academic, since 1995.

Consultant Strategic Management Development Ltd, Wadenhoe, Cambridgeshire, England, 1996—1999. Academic advisor Institute Of Practitioners In Advertising Industry/academia Committee, London, 1998. Public reviewer Oxford University Press, Oxford, Oxfordshire, since 1998, Macmillan, Basingstoke, since 1998.

Research bid reviewer Economic And Social Research Council, London, 2001. International celebrity speaker Celebrity Speakers Association, Andorra, since 2004.

Achievements

• David Wallace Pickton has been listed as a notable marketing professor, consultant, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Deputy church warden St Peter's Church of England, Leire, 2000—2003, electoral roll officer, since 1998, parochial church council member, 1998—2003. Fellow: Academy Higher Education, Chartered Institute Marketing (education liaison officer 1985-1987), Royal Society for Arts. Member: British Institute Management, Communications, Advertising and Marketing Foundation, Institute Learning and Teaching, Academy Marketing.

Interests

• Photography, poetry.

Connections

Married Margaret Joan Irwin, August 28, 1981. Children: Anna Rosalie, Michael David.

Father:

Sydney Pickton

Mother:

Charlotte Hannah Pickton

Spouse:

Margaret Joan Irwin

child:

Anna Rosalie Pickton

child:

Michael David Pickton