David Ferriday

Independent Governor

1st Term of Office

Born in Wolverhampton to a working class family with one grandparent having fought in the Second World War losing a thumb to shrapnel and the others being licensees of a local public house. A father that was a police officer who worked within the CID and Regional Crime Squad and a Mother who was a full time housewife and having to go through the separation and divorce of his parents at the age of eleven gave a varied upbringing. David grew up in Telford and has lived all of his life there with a large portion of my family coming from Shifnal.

Highly academic through school coupled with a love of sport developed a keen competitiveness but liking a variety of things meant that David did not develop an overriding excellence in any one discipline. Football has always been David’s passion but he has also played Tennis, Badminton, Table Tennis and captained school teams at Rugby Union, Basketball and Volleyball. David also played Water Polo for Newport, has played Snooker from the age of seven to today, runs local darts teams and has played Pool for Shropshire. David took up Karate at an early age but came back to martial arts when David was in his mid-thirties, taking up Tae Kwan Do. David attained the level of second Dan covered sessions teaching before retiring from the sport. David has also coached junior football teams from the ages of seven through to sixteen and has passed his initial coaching badges.

An only child for sixteen years of his life, meeting his half Sister and Brother at the age of twenty after a reconciliation with his father was a significant point in his life giving him the siblings that he never had growing up.

David left home at twenty three and was married at twenty five with his first Son coming five years later, followed by his Daughter eighteen months later and his second son after another four years and has recently become a Grandfather for the first time.

After school David attended the local Technical College where he studied Business Studies, really because other than always wanting to be a stuntman as a child he never really knew what career path he wanted to take at this stage in his life.

After successfully gaining a distinction he had a place at Wolverhampton Polytechnic (Wolverhampton University) to do a Law Degree with a view to a career as a Barrister. After a recommendation from a college lecturer he ended up getting offered a trainee accountant position with GKN and this put him on the career path he has followed since.

David has had a varied career to date but mainly within manufacturing covering industry sectors from Automotive, Defence, Electronics, Technology, Chemicals, Tool making, Ceramics, Plumbing & heating and Prototyping. This has given him exposure to a large number of manufacturing techniques including Assembly, Presswork, Forge, wire erosion, CNC machining, injection moulding and 3D printing.

David has been involved for over twenty five years with an IT business in more of a non-executive role which covers hardware and software sales, programming, server hosting and microwave broadband to rural areas. David sees his future in using his varied experience to help mould successful futures for the younger generation.