David King

David is an experienced senior executive and leader in the field of IT, cyber-security and crisis management. He has served for many years in the security industry, primarily in the financial sector, and has previously led national co-ordination of security awareness across the UK.

David King is a former Chief Information Security Officer at Legal & General, and has held senior positions in security in a number of organisations including National Grid, Aviva and JP Morgan Chase. He is a visiting fellow of Kellogg College and an external academic at the University of Oxford where he teaches on the Software and Systems Security Masters programme. He is the sole author of a number of patents on blockchain technology, and his PhD, awarded in 1987, is in the field of applied cryptography.