Co-Founder / Chief Executive Officer
David is a security professional with a career spanning two decades locally and abroad, having moved to Australia in 2019 from the UK. He’s worked for several global organisations leading both technical and non-technical teams to establish new products and capabilities. A builder at heart, his true passion is creating and leading teams to achieve great outcomes while ensuring a healthy dose of innovation is included along the way. Having built one of the leading Threat Intelligence functions in the APAC region at the National Australia Bank (NAB), he was the driving force behind intelligence sharing across the public and private sectors.
David advises companies on designing and implementing Intelligence and Zero Trust capabilities, driving execution, and making technical concepts universally understood. He is passionate about making Intelligence capabilities accessible, having presented on the topic at AISA Canberra in 2022.
He co-founded CI-ISAC Australia with the vision of building a suite of enabling capabilities that our nation’s critical infrastructure entities can leverage to uplift their collective cyber defences.
David holds numerous technical and security certifications (CISSP, CCSP) in addition to his Masters in Business Administration (MBA), awarded with Merit by the Open University (UK) in 2011.
