The Airlock Digital Leadership Team 

A renowned application control expert and cyber security practitioner, David co-founded Airlock Digital in 2013 and established the product-first, customer-focused culture that drives our growth today. Leveraging his extensive cybersecurity and application control experience within the Australian Government, David collaborated with fellow co-founder Daniel Schell to build a solution that would solve modern endpoint security challenges.

Today, that solution has transformed application control, allowlisting, and OS hardening into a critical cybersecurity strategy for the mid-market and enterprise around the world. An in-demand thought leader and presenter at world-leading cybersecurity events including CrowdStrike Fal.Con, David has also authored SANS SEC480: Implementing & Auditing the ASD Top 4 Mitigation Strategies for the SANS Institute, a global cybersecurity training organization.

Co-founder of Airlock Digital and proven cybersecurity innovator, Daniel leads the R&D function designed to take the application control business and solution to the next level. By aligning research strategy with business goals, he guides the architecture design and development of new features and collaborates with customers and key stakeholders on the solution roadmap. Daniel evaluates emerging and competitive technology trends, establishes research policies, protocols and best practices, and ensures research activities comply with all relevant guidelines. 

Daniel’s previous roles include Chief Technology Officer at security solutions provider emt and Distribution and Technical Director at GFI Software. He holds a Master’s Degree in Information Systems Security from Charles Sturt University and a Graduate Certificate in Business Administration from the University of Adelaide.

With 20+ years global leadership experience across high growth and large-scale businesses, Phil brings a wealth of business leadership expertise to Airlock Digital. As President & Head of Growth he is responsible for developing the company's strategy and executing on our growth aspirations.

Prior to Airlock Digital, Phil was Chief Customer Officer of global live experiences marketplace Eventbrite (NYSE:EB) and held a number of senior leadership positions at General Electric (NYSE:GE). He holds a Masters Degree in International Business and Bachelor of Commerce, both from the University of Melbourne.

With experience supporting high-growth and founder-led businesses across the SaaS, technology and consumer sectors, Gokhan brings a strong commercial mindset and track record of scaling operations, strengthening capital structures and driving value creation.

Before joining Airlock Digital, Gokhan was Group CFO and Director at global SaaS talent management platform PageUp and held senior finance and general management roles at global brand 2XU and Deloitte.

Gokhan is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a Chartered Accountant, and has served as an executive director at board level.