David Hampshire

Director

David Hampshire is the former Chairman and Managing Director of Diageo Africa. He has worked across the African continent for the last 35 years. David chairs the africapractice group’s Investment and Growth Committee and provides board level client support to locally listed companies in Johannesburg, Lagos, and Nairobi, drawing on his experience with Diageo and as a board member of a number of major listed companies in Africa, including East African Breweries Ltd, Guinness Nigeria plc and Guinness Ghana Breweries Ltd.

David began his career with the National Import Export Corporation, a Zambian parastatal. He was then Managing Director of Speciality Foods, a food and confectionary manufacturing business in Zambia. From 1981-8, he was Managing Director of Guinness Cameroun, before returning to the UK to head Guinness’s (later Diageo’s) operations in Africa, first as Managing Director and then as Chairman. David successfully grew Diageo Africa’s turnover to $1.5 billion during his tenure, before retiring and joining africapractice group in March 2006.