During his tenure he was responsible for numerous gold royalty agreements, oversaw the IPO of Philex Mining on the Toronto Stock Exchange and was an expert valuer in the telecommunications field.
Following his tenure at Rothschild, Baxby moved to Goldman Sachs and spent the next eight years in both the Sydney and London offices as a Partner and executive director.
David Baxby, returned to Australia for the launch of the Virgin Group and was involved in the early days of its airline operations.
He was the runner-up Valedictorian, Law and Business School scholarship holder, on the Deans List as well as achieving multiple academic prizes.
Baxby is an avid cyclist and has participated in the Starlight Children's Foundation's ‘Tour de Kids’ for the past 8 years[which?].
In addition to this, he is also the Chairman of Virgin Unite in the Asia-Pacific region, which principally focuses of youth at risk, in particular homelessness and drug dependency.