Our Team
MindVault was not born inside a security vendor. It was built by people who saw the gap, filed the patents, and only then recruited the team that had been living the problem from inside enterprise platforms.
Our team
Three co-founders and a founding engineer who filed the intellectual property first, and an advisory bench recruited from the enterprises this is built for.
Founder & CEO
Named inventor on both U.S. provisional patent applications behind MindVault, covering behavioral pattern analysis and synthetic profile generation. Filed the IP before recruiting anyone, then brought in enterprise veterans ahead of production development.
2 U.S. provisional patents · Wireless and embedded platforms
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Co-Founder & COO
Enterprise go-to-market leader across fintech, data infrastructure, and AI. Helped scale a leading enterprise AI platform through its breakout growth phase, after nine years as a Principal Consultant advising Tier 1 financial institutions on risk and analytics.
Fintech · Data infrastructure · AI · 9 yrs Tier 1 consulting
Co-Founder & CTO
Enterprise architect and cloud software leader. Has driven architecture across multi-product environments, modernized legacy platforms and improved reliability for critical production systems, partnering directly with executive leadership to turn business goals into technical execution.
Cloud infrastructure · Full-stack · Systems design
Founding Engineer
Computer scientist with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas Tech University. Backend depth across data structures, logic-based reasoning, and scientific computing, built through university instruction, research, and applied software projects.
Ph.D. Computer Science · C · C++ · C# · Python · Ruby · Haskell · Prolog
Account Executive
Spent more than a decade in aerospace engineering, most recently leading a team supporting a commercial helicopter fleet, where safety and uptime depend on getting every technical call right. That work was about serving customers: listening closely, then turning complex technical detail into clear decisions they could act on. Brings the same approach to MindVault, helping customers understand their security risks and find the solution that fits.
MBA · 20+ patents · 10+ yrs aerospace engineering
Advisory board
Advisor
Enterprise technology executive, author, and Managing Partner of Altera Partners, with more than forty years of leadership across Werner Enterprises, Vonage, Sabre, BlackBerry, Thomson Reuters, and The New York Times Company. Has led major transformation initiatives, supported over 200 acquisitions and divestitures, and mentored more than 100 leaders into CxO roles.
Co-founder, The Digital Risk Alliance · Enterprise data, AI, and digital trust
Advisor
Co-inventor of ACT!, the pioneering contact management software that helped establish the CRM category. Mike began his career in IBM sales and co-founded Contact Software International, which brought ACT! to market in 1987 and was acquired by Symantec in 1993. He later worked with major global accounts on CRM initiatives at Deloitte and co-founded Contatta. He brings MindVault a founder's perspective on category creation, customer adoption, and relationship-driven growth.
Co-inventor of ACT! · IBM · Deloitte · Co-founder, Contatta
Advisor
Product and technical program executive with 20 years of experience building and scaling foundational cloud, security, and data platforms across Microsoft, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), and Aurora.
A recognized expert in post-authentication defense, he has directed the vision, execution, and go-to-market strategies for AI-security platforms, multicloud security integrations, security data lakes, and sovereign cloud environments.
At MindVault, he draws on his deep background in telemetry ingestion, behavioral anomaly profiling, and insider risk workflows to advise on scaling the continuous telemetry pipelines and deterministic control layers required to secure modern enterprise sessions.
U.S. patent · Microsoft Research · Microsoft's Gold Star Award
Advisor
A hands-on security operator who works at the Field CTO level with enterprise security teams. His work centers on threat intelligence, incident response, and helping organizations recover after a breach.
At MindVault, he advises on product security and on what CISOs need from a signal that works after login, so the product is shaped by real buyer demand. He serves in a personal capacity, independent of his employer.
Threat intelligence · Incident response · Breach recovery
Why this team
Each of these was already true before the first line of production code. None of them is something a team can add to itself later.
Sequence
Two U.S. provisional patent applications, covering behavioral pattern analysis and synthetic profile generation, were filed before there was a technical team to build against them.
Scale
Combined leadership has taken platforms from $35M to $150M+ ARR across financial services, enterprise SaaS, and security.
Domain
Direct experience inside Tier 1 financial institutions and leading enterprises on risk, analytics, and compliance. The team speaks the buyer’s language because it used to be the buyer.
Why the gap stays open
Platform economics prevent incumbents from prioritizing this layer.
Full leadership profiles available on request during evaluation
Mission
To continuously measure who is operating every session, and give security teams the confidence to act the moment that trust changes.
Vision
To establish Continuous Identity Confidence as a foundational control layer, shifting the question from who has access to who is actually in control.
