In 1991, I began my career in the foundations of the internet. Not the glamorous end — the infrastructure. The protocols, authentication systems, and architecture the modern world would eventually depend on completely, without ever thinking about them.
 

By 1999 I was at VeriSign, the certificate authority behind the cryptographic trust infrastructure of the early internet. Every padlock icon in every browser. Every secure transaction. Three million certificates spanning military, government, and financial services. I was there when internet security was being built at scale, in real time, with no template to follow.
 

From there, enterprise consulting at Avanade, CGI Group, and Capgemini. Identity and access management across eight Queensland state departments. Counter-terrorism digital reform after September 11. Advising at Premier level before online safety existed as a policy category, before the platforms had PR teams dedicated to appearing to care about it.
 

I was in those rooms. I saw what was prioritised. I saw what was ignored.
 

In 2013, the internet turned on me personally. A sustained cyber abuse campaign. More than two years. Relentless and designed to destroy. I did not become a cautionary tale. I became the person who understood these systems well enough — technically, legally, psychologically, institutionally — to change them.
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In 2009 I founded the world's first consulting firm dedicated to social media security, privacy, and risk management. Safe on Social followed in 2014. Then Ctrl+Shft, with Maggie Dent, Dr Brad Marshall, and Madeleine West.
 

None of these organisations have ever accepted funding from platforms or AI companies. Independence is not a footnote in my biography. It is the entire architecture of my credibility.

 

I am the architect of seven proprietary frameworks — none available anywhere else, because I built them to fill gaps nobody else had filled.

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​Over 1,200 organisations across eight countries operate with my frameworks embedded in their daily practice.

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I have given evidence at Australian and New Zealand parliamentary inquiries. I am an expert Advisor to Standards Australia's Child Safety in the Metaverse Standard. I served on the Federal Government Age Assurance Technology Trial Advisory Board, contributing directly to Australia's age verification legislation.

I have served as expert witness in cross-jurisdictional litigation involving image-based abuse and platform liability. I have provided crisis support in live incidents involving sexual extortion, deepfake abuse, and technology-facilitated harm against children and adults.

This is not theoretical knowledge. This is thirty-four years of frontline experience where institutional reputation, legal liability, and human lives are simultaneously at stake.

I am a media commentator for BBC, CNN, The Times,  Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Guardian, ABC Australia and many more. 

My first book co-authored with Maggie Dent will be published by Macmillan in 2026.

I am based between Florence, Byron Bay, Sydney, and London.

The work is global, and my independence is absolute. That is the work, and I have never been more certain that it matters.