David B. Cross

David is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for the Oracle SaaS Cloud Security engineering and operations organization.

Previously, David was the public Cloud Security Engineering Director in the Google Security and Privacy organization and his preceding 18 years were spent with Microsoft in numerous security platform, cloud, product and engineering leadership roles.

David holds a B.S. in Computer Information Systems as well as an MBA with a Management Information Systems concentration and is a longtime advocate of security application and technology stemming back to his US military service.

David is also a Venture Partner with Rain Capital VC with successful track record with notable acquisitions starting with his seed investment of Twistlock which was acquired by Palo Alto.

In addition, David has been a long-time security IP innovator with 30+ patents as well as a contributing author on many whitepapers and industry books regarding security and PKI.