About Us
We believe that people should never have to sacrifice privacy for security and businesses should never be priced out of security features. We will never charge a premium for security or privacy features in our products.
Our Team
Gadalia Montoya Weinberg O’Bryan
FOUNDER AND CEO
Gadalia is the Founder and CEO of Dapple Security. She served as a cryptomathematician at the National Security Agency (NSA) for nearly a decade, and has built a successful career as a senior technology leader, operator, founder and investor, specializing in security and data technologies that transform business, impact mission, and create change in the world. Gadalia has a graduate degree in Mathematics from UCLA and invests energy into fostering entrepreneurship and interest in STEM fields, increasing equity and representation in technology, and using technology for good.
Keith Bucher
CO-FOUNDER AND CTO
Keith Bucher is the Co-Founder and CTO of Dapple Security. He has led teams for several startups in the data security space, building software that is used by many Fortune 500 companies and some of the largest government organizations. Particular areas of expertise include encryption, data governance and identity management. He has also contributed to several open source projects focused on encryption and key management. With undergraduate degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics, Keith is especially interested in solving cross-functional problems across different fields.
William Lester
DIRECTOR OF SALES
William Lester is the Director of Sales at Dapple Security. He brings extensive sales experience, with a comprehensive background in channel sales and IT consulting; helping businesses of all sizes adopt technology and reducing risk without adding unnecessary cost or complexity. William works closely with MSPs, MSSPs, Executives and IT leaders to bring phishing-resistant, privacy-first authentication to their organizations. He holds a B.S. in Consumer Economics from the University of Alabama.
Will Ackerly
BOARD MEMBER AND ADVISOR
Will is a Board Member and Advisor to Dapple. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Virtru. Prior to founding Virtru in 2012, Will spent eight years at the National Security Agency (NSA) where he specialized in cross-agency cloud analytics and security architecture. During his tenure at the NSA, Will led the development of the Trusted Data Format (TDF), an open standard published by the US Office of Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Will holds 25 patents, and is a frequent speaker and quoted expert on cryptography, data access control policy and big data analytics.