David Marsh

In addition to his role as Illumonus General Counsel, David is a UK solicitor having qualified in 1978. He was a partner in the London practice of Needham & Grant until that firm merged with Wragge & Co. in March, 2000. In January, 2003 he moved to Dickinson Dees as that firm's head of information technology and electronic business law. Between 2004 and 2009 he has been a consultant to Dickinson Dees as well as carrying out other commercial and legal consultancy work.

David's expertise is in the field of commercial law focusing on information technology law, intellectual property law, internet law, electronic commerce legal issues and international trade law. During his career David has worked on electronic commerce legal issues in many industries, both in the UK and overseas, including defense, the travel industry, retail supply chain management, and telecommunications. He has advised major IT industry companies on outsourcing IT contracts.

In 1997 he was elected as a member of the United Nations CEFACT Steering Group. Between 1999 and 2006 he was the Legal Liaison Rapporteur for the United Nations in the UN/CEFACT body.

Between 2006 and 2009 he was the chair of an ENISA (a European Union agency) working group (WG-RANIS) advising on legal and regulatory issues regarding electronic commerce network security issues in the EU. He also recently worked on legal issues concerning the development of RFID and he has carried legal consultancy work for EASA, the EU Air Safety regulatory body focusing on data protection legal aspects.

He has carried out legal work concerning e-commerce issues including advising on legislative development for the governments of a number of countries, specifically the Hong Kong Regional Administration, Israel, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, South Korea, Iran, India, Croatia, Taiwan, Pakistan, Denmark and Vietnam. He first became involved in legal aspects of electronic commerce and international trade facilitation through the DTI Agency, SITPRO. Between 1997 and 2005 he was a non-executive director of GS1 UK, (formerly e centre UK).

He is a visiting lecturer in computer law at University College London and has also been engaged in a number of European Commission funded research projects that have been central in developing awareness of electronic commerce legal issues in Europe.