Modern CISO Network: Board Book

David is a longtime advocate of security application and technology, stemming back to his military service when he first started his work in encryption, information protection, and data analysis during his five years’ active-duty service with the aviation electronic warfare community of the United States Navy. David received numerous honors, including a Navy Achievement Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Armed Forces Service Medal, and a NATO medal for his combat-based tours. For over 30 years, he has resided in the Seattle Puget Sound region, and for the past five years, he has served as the Senior Vice President and CISO for the Oracle SaaS Cloud Security engineering and operations organization.

As a long-time security IP innovator, David has earned more than 30 patents. He is also a contributing author and presenter on numerous cybersecurity whitepapers, conferences, and webinars.

David previously built the public Cloud Security Engineering organization as a Director in the Google Security and Privacy organization. He held this position for three years, following 18 years at Microsoft where he held various security platform, cloud, product, and engineering leadership roles. David is a long-time expert, advocate, and executive sponsor, specializing in working with public sector and defense sector organizations. His in-depth security expertise and industry engagement enable him to guide critical industries and organizations on how they can securely and beneficially undergo a cloud data and application transformation to ensure maximum performance, resilience, and security.

David holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems from Chapman University as well as an MBA with an MIS concentration from City University.