David is a highly accomplished executive with over two decades of experience across Australia and the Asia Pacific, leading transformation, growth, and customer innovation across cloud services, data centres, AI infrastructure, and digital platforms. As Chief Customer and Commercial Officer at NEXTDC, David holds full commercial and go-to-market responsibility across the company's five core business units — Hyperscale, Colocation, Edge, Connectivity, and Asia. He oversees Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Customer Delivery, Products, and Regional and Vendor Management, while driving NEXTDC's international expansion across Asia.

David is at the forefront of NEXTDC's AI infrastructure leadership, spearheading the company's GTM for AI Factories and liquid-to-chip cooling platforms. He serves as NEXTDC's executive sponsor to NVIDIA and leads the growth of NEO and NEXTDC's next-generation cloud and AI platform partnerships. A proven leader in large, complex sales campaigns, David has led the teams behind some of NEXTDC's most significant strategic contracts — known for his ability to align customer ambition with commercial outcomes through operational precision, technical fluency, and a relentless focus on customer success.

David's leadership philosophy centres on building a unified voice of the customer, deepening strategic alliances, and developing high-performance teams that deliver with urgency, discipline, and trust.

Prior to NEXTDC, David served as Vice President and General Manager at Parallels in Hong Kong, a global leader in virtualisation and cloud automation. Before that, he held a series of senior executive roles at Symantec, where he was instrumental in establishing the company as a leading provider of security and storage solutions across ANZ and APAC — most recently as Vice President of Sales (Channel/SMB/GSP) for APJ, and prior to that as Senior Director of Enterprise Sales and Partners across Asia Pacific.