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.

A dynamic leader with 20+ years’ experience driving growth and innovation in cybersecurity, Patrick is responsible for Sales, Solutions Engineering, Channel Partnerships, Technical Alliances and Marketing for Airlock Digital. As Chief Revenue Officer, he leads a unified go-to-market strategy that empowers customers to transform their security posture while building strategic alliances in a growing global market.

Before joining Airlock Digital, Patrick held senior positions at several high-growth cybersecurity companies where he built successful revenue teams, forged key partnerships, and opened new markets. A recognized thought leader and compelling speaker, his expertise spans enterprise security, endpoint protection, application control, and identity. Patrick is passionate about educating the security community about the evolving threat landscape and the role of application control.