David Cohen has a law degree from Edinburgh University, qualified as a Chartered Accountant and gained an MBA with high distinction at the Harvard Graduate School of Business.

He worked as an Investment Banker with Goldman Sachs in New York and London from 1980 – 1983. 

Thereafter he was Managing Director of a UK manufacturing group which was sold to Alexon PLC in 1987.  He was then a director and CFO of Alexon, acquiring its Hong Kong and Taiwanese businesses in 1988 and de- merging its manufacturing activities in 1992.

In 1993 he moved to Perot Systems where he held a number of roles, ultimately as Chief Executive of Perot Systems Europe.  In addition, in 1996 he established, was a founding Director, and subsequently Chairman of Perot Systems Technical Services India, a joint venture and subsequently 4,000 person subsidiary of Perot Systems.

He left Perot Systems in 2005 to establish a private investment group in India focusing on real estate.  He is currently Chairman of F&C REIT Property Management India and its Indian development entities.

F&C REIT Asset Management is a specialist investment, finance and asset management partnership with over £8 billion of real estate under management in the UK, Europe, Israel and India

He is President of the United Jewish Israel Appeal in the UK, sits on the board of the UK Jewish Leadership Council and is a Trustee / Board Member of several other non-profit organisations. 

He is married to Smadar and has three children.