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David joined Arqit from McAfee where, as Director of Engineering and Site Leader at McAfee’s Brighton development centre, he led the software engineering teams responsible for the McAfee enterprise encryption product set. With over 12 years of experience leading multi-site engineering teams to build mission-critical enterprise encryption and key management systems in both on-prem and cloud environments, David's focus on driving innovation and quality across the organisation ensured that the McAfee encryption product set was named Leader in the Gartner MQ for Mobile Data Protection for seven successive years until the quadrant was retired, and counted a large proportion of the Fortune 500 and Global 2000 amongst its customer base. Prior to joining McAfee, David spent 13 years as a senior C++ engineer at Envitia leading the development of high-performance 2D/3D mapping and spatial analysis systems. David holds a BEng(Hons) in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University, and his first role was designing animation software in C for TV character generators used on Top of the Pops, Sky Sports and BBC Cricket amongst others in the mid-‘90s.