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Mr David began his career in The Boston Consulting Group before joining the Otis Elevator Company in 1975. He held various roles in Otis and later in United Technologies Corporation (UTC), following Otis’s merger with UTC in 1977. In 1992 he became UTC’s chief operating officer and was subsequently appointed UTC’s chief executive officer in 1994. He became president of UTC in 1992 and chairman in 1997. Mr David is a non-executive director of Citigroup and vice-chairman of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was awarded the Order of Friendship from the Russian Federation in 1999 and admitted to the French Legion d’Honnéur in 2002 | 