Dave MacKinnon

Dave MacKinnon is the Vice President, Technology Infrastructure and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of JetBlue. The airline announced his appointment alongside three other vice president appointments, and its announcement does not give a start date.

He leads JetBlue's technology infrastructure, cybersecurity and anti-fraud teams and reports to Chief Digital & Technology Officer Carol Clements.

Career path

JetBlue describes MacKinnon as bringing more than 25 years of experience in technology leadership, cybersecurity and business resilience. He is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).

His earlier senior technology leadership roles were at KPMG, Turner and AT&T/WarnerMedia. The sources do not give dates for these positions.

At AT&T/WarnerMedia he was an IT security leader. In that role he implemented an extensive security program that managed complex incident response events.

In May 2021, N-able, formerly SolarWinds MSP, named him its chief security officer. The company serves managed services providers (MSPs).

At the time of that appointment, N-able credited him with more than 20 years of experience leading global security teams across various industries.

His N-able remit covered the information security team, including product and application security, governance, risk and compliance (GRC), and security incident response.

JetBlue's announcement says he established N-able's security and business continuity programs.

He then joined JetBlue in his current dual infrastructure and security role.

Remit at JetBlue

The airline has framed the job around infrastructure as much as defence. MacKinnon is expected to advance the reliability, resilience and security of JetBlue's technology infrastructure and to protect the airline against evolving cybersecurity threats.

Combining infrastructure, cybersecurity and anti-fraud under one leader brings operational uptime and threat protection into the same reporting line to the airline's chief digital and technology officer.

Board reporting and public commentary

In a March 2026 interview with IT Brew, MacKinnon described his work with N-able's board cybersecurity committee. That subset of the board had formed about five years earlier, and he met with it for 90 minutes every quarter.

The interview focused on translating cybersecurity impact into business terms. He explained how he frames that impact: "I break it into two different aspects: What is the impact itself and probability of impact?"

He also described scoring risks and estimating their cost. One example was calculating how much revenue would be tied to losing business operations for a day.

In May 2024 he appeared on the N-able podcast Beyond the Horizons—From Security to Resilience with host Pete Roythorne. The conversation covered Managed Detection and Response (MDR) for MSPs, the challenges of building a Security Operations Center (SOC), technology selection, threat detection and the role of resiliency in protecting businesses.

A June 2024 N-able blog post drew on that interview. It summarised his view that MSPs should look past acronyms such as EDR, MDR and XDR, which he likened to a game of buzzword bingo, and focus on how MDR addresses customers' security concerns.