David Gildea’s career has been shaped by a simple, recurring question from customers: Can I just get this data in Excel?

As a consultant, he saw first-hand how organizations struggled to access, interpret, and secure their own information.

The gap wasn’t just technical; it was human.

Spotting patterns across massive datasets was beyond human capacity, and that realization drew Gildea towards artificial intelligence (AI) as a way to make data both usable and secure at scale.

That interest, however, came later.