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.
“We are dealing with a new class of a threat, which is very dangerous,” he told SBS News.
Oleg Vornik with one of the counter-drone devices.
SBS/Sandra Fulloon
Commercial drones are readily available, and authorities across the world fear terror groups could modify the devices as weapons against military or civilian targets.