Career profile
Craig Davies
Chief Information Security Officer, Gathid
- Current role, per sources checked 24 September 2026
- Not stated in the sources
Craig Davies is the Chief Information Security Officer and an Executive Director of Gathid, a role he took on in 2023.
Career path
Before joining Gathid, Davies served as Chief Security Officer for Cochlear Ltd.
He also held the role of head of security at Atlassian.
Earlier, Davies was the first CEO of the Australian Cybersecurity Growth Network, known as AustCyber, where he negotiated agreements with states and territories to establish innovation nodes across the country and set out a plan to make Australia a global force in the cybersecurity market.
Across these roles, Davies has spent more than 25 years in cybersecurity, working in infrastructure operations, security architecture and software, web development, and operations.
Gathid itself was founded in 2023, with the company describing its work as built on 20 years of solving physical identity and access management challenges before extending into identity governance.
Remit at Gathid
In his current role, Davies is focused on helping organizations strengthen access management without requiring a complete overhaul of their people, processes, physical infrastructure, or technology.
Talks and published work
Davies wrote The Cybersecurity Checklist That Could Save Your M&A Deal, published May 1, 2024. He also authored Close Identity Gaps in Software Development Before Unleashing AI, published October 20, 2026. In a September 2026 podcast titled Transforming Zero-Trust Access with Craig Davies, he discussed how artificial intelligence will be applied to make it easier to use identity to ensure zero-trust access to applications and IT infrastructure. Davies has also featured in the Gathid blog post Ask These Five Cyber Questions First with Craig Davies.
