Dave is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Spirent’s Cloud & IP Division, which develops wireline High-Speed Ethernet (HSE), L4-7 application security and Cloud-native test and measurement solutions. Dave has more than 25 years of technical and business leadership experience across networking, network security, and cloud architecture working in both emerging technology startups and large public enterprises.​​​​​​​

Before joining Spirent, Dave was Vice President and General Manager for the Data Center Networking business and Chief Technologist for Networking, Security and Advanced Cloud Technology and Strategy at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Previously, Dave was COO/CTO for Corero Network Security, a developer of carrier-grade, terabit-class DDoS mitigation solutions. Prior to that, Dave was VP of Advanced Technology and CTO for HP Networking.

Additionally, Dave has held senior product and technical roles in a number of organizations, including 3Com Corporation, TippingPoint, Xedia (acquired by Lucent), Sandburst (acquired by Broadcom), and Tizor Systems (acquired by Netezza/IBM).

Dave has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Gordon College in Wenham, MA