Leadership
David Selakovic
Founder, Performance Data
The judgment behind the work
Performance Data was built for organizations where failure is visible: security vendors, government contractors, critical-service operators, and enterprise teams that need assurance able to withstand scrutiny. David Selakovic founded the firm on a principle that still defines it: security earns trust through evidence, not slogans.
David is a technologist and entrepreneur with a background in software architecture and the systems companies depend on to operate, communicate, and stay protected. That engineering foundation shapes Performance Data’s discipline, an independent, evidence-led approach that prizes defensible controls and provable outcomes over noise.
Credentials and affiliations
Independence as a discipline
Assurance only matters when it is independent.
Performance Data holds no vendor allegiance and works discreetly, often under the client’s own name. David established that posture deliberately: assurance is only meaningful when it is independent, and the work only matters when it holds up under examination. Since 2008, that standard has guided how the firm serves environments where the cost of getting security wrong is high and public.
A broader body of work
Beyond Performance Data, David has founded and led companies across technology, infrastructure, and biotechnology. He is the founder and CEO of Vegalab, a Swiss company advancing sustainable solutions for global food systems, and founder of Selacorp, which builds secure business-growth systems. Across all of them runs a single thread: building systems that can be understood, trusted, and relied upon.
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