Oleg Vornik is a local CEO with a broad global view.
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, he was spending six months of the year travelling the world to sell his company DroneShield's counter-drone technology to Australian allies.
Although international border closures have kept the 39-year-old in Australia since, Sydney-based DroneShield has continued to export amid rising global demand for counter-drone technology.
Commercial drones are readily available, and authorities across the world fear terror groups could modify the devices as weapons against military or civilian targets.
Parts can also be ordered over the internet to make unregistered devices.
“Anyone can go online and build [a drone] with a significant level of capability, completely autonomously and completely anonymously,” DroneShield chief technology officer Angus Bean said.
The DroneShield technology works by first detecting a drone's signal, then disabling it and forcing it to land safely.
