Decades of scale, innovation, and enterprise execution.
The team building MindVault.
Derrick Smith
Named inventor on two U.S. provisional patent applications covering behavioral pattern analysis and synthetic profile generation. Filed the IP before recruiting the team. Prior experience building foundational technology for wireless and embedded consumer platforms. Recruited enterprise veterans ahead of production development.
Ulysses David
Enterprise go-to-market leader across fintech, data infrastructure, and AI. Helped scale a leading enterprise AI platform through its breakout growth phase. 9 years as a Principal Consultant advising Tier 1 financial institutions on risk and analytics.
Joe Dan Davenport
Enterprise architect and cloud-focused software leader with deep experience designing scalable systems, modernizing legacy platforms, and leading teams through delivery. Has driven architecture across multi-product environments, improved reliability for critical production systems, and partnered directly with executive leadership to translate business goals into technical execution. Combines founder-minded product thinking with hands-on depth across cloud infrastructure, full-stack engineering, and systems design.
Josh Archer
Computer scientist and software developer with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas Tech University. Brings strong backend engineering depth across programming languages, data structures, logic-based reasoning, scientific computing, and software development. Experienced across university instruction, research, and applied software projects, with technical strengths in C, C++, C#, Python, Ruby, Haskell, Prolog, ASP, and databases.
Guided by enterprise veterans.
Steve Strout
Enterprise technology executive, advisor, author, and Managing Partner of Altera Partners with 40+ years of leadership across global organizations including Werner Enterprises, Vonage, Sabre, BlackBerry, Thomson Reuters, and The New York Times Company. Has led major transformation initiatives, supported 200+ acquisitions and divestitures, and mentored more than 100 leaders into CxO roles. Co-founder of The Digital Risk Alliance and a recognized voice on enterprise data, AI, digital trust, and technology governance.
Built by operators, not observers.
MindVault was not born inside a security vendor. It was built by people who saw the gap, filed the patents, and recruited the team that had been living the problem from inside enterprise platforms.
2 U.S. provisional patent applications on behavioral pattern analysis and synthetic profile generation filed before recruiting a technical team.
Combined leadership scaling platforms from $35M to $150M+ ARR across financial services, enterprise SaaS, and security.
Direct experience at Tier 1 financial institutions on risk, analytics, and compliance. The team speaks the buyer's language.
Platform economics prevent incumbents from prioritizing this layer.
Full leadership profiles available upon request during evaluation.
Our Mission
To continuously verify the human or agent behind every session and enforce real-time security controls when trust is compromised.
Our Vision
To establish Continuous Identity Confidence as a foundational control layer. shifting from "who has access" to "who is actually in control."