David Thomas – Managing Director of Matrix Knowledge India
David is Senior Vice President of Matrix International and Head of Matrix International Healthcare Services. He is also Managing Director of the Matrix Knowledge India joint venture. David’s current work focuses on assessing the prospects for major international healthcare partnering; Matrix’s knowledge-based and strategic development and systems reform offers and development of public private partnerships in the health sector in India.
David is a highly experienced healthcare manager operating at executive board director level for twenty years in the NHS (major Academic health centre’s / teaching hospital acute Trusts) and management consultancy firms with a comprehensive economics based strategic and operational management track record.
Before joining Matrix, David was Executive Director of Strategic and Business Development Imperial College Health Care NHS Trust / formerly Hammersmith hospitals NHS Trust. In this and his other roles he has had considerable experience in health systems in the US and Asia. He has a proven track record on over 250 major health care projects including a large number of high profile NHS planning projects and many with a significant international healthcare dimension.
