Modern CISO Network: Board Book

As a CISO/Chief Information Officer (CIO), David fosters business innovation, transformation, agility, and viability through dynamic leadership and vision. He is a groundbreaking, entrepreneurial, and recognized security and operations executive operating at the intersection of disruptive innovation, risk management, transformative thought leadership, and technology strategy. David secures the hybrid cloud environment and supports rapid growth by enhancing enterprise and cloud security architecture, compliance, engineering, and operation maturity. He is a pragmatic leader who has developed and directed successful long-term IT models, teams, and partnerships that facilitate aggressive company growth and positive corporate culture. David analyzes strategies, capitalizing on trends and building competitive advantage.

A U.S. Air Force Veteran, he also served in his early career as Senior Systems Engineer at MFluent LLC, Novarra Inc, and U.S. Cellular. He continued his career growth working at Celltrak Technologies as Manager of Global Network Operations and at Vaporstream as Director of Network Operations. At Origami Risk LLC, David was the Director of IT/CISO, where he led IT and security for the service platform. David built the IT, DevOps, and security organizations, helping grow the business from 30 to 304 people and catapulted a one-page document to a compliant security organization, supporting revenue growth 35% YoY as well as 80% YoY new business growth.

David continued to escalate his career working at WEX Inc., as Director of Global Information Security Engineering and Operations. For two fast-paced years, he built strategies, securing current and future system migrations into the cloud. In his current position as VP, CISO at PlanSource, David leads the global security organization. He was recruited to build strategies to secure a hybrid cloud environment and support rapid growth. He has leveraged new disruptive technologies and tools to maintain enterprise and cloud security at the pace of innovation while delivering clear business value.