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Our Mission

HTCD leverages Al to provide cloud security solutions with 100% data sovereignty that are intuitive and affordable

Founder Story

At HTCD, our journey started in early 2023 with a simple observation: most of the cost and complexity in cloud security came down to customers moving petabytes of data to and from security providers.

Cloud Service Providers including AWS, Azure, Databricks, Snowflake and others had just started to move towards data lakes. Our ‘aha moment’ was to realize that combining data lakes with the emerging technology of Generative AI could invert data ownership in favor of the customer.

We could leverage Gen AI for its strengths – like converting English into SQL queries – and only extract relevant information from these data lakes, reducing data transfers to almost nothing! And this opened the door to providing customers with market-leading security, predictable pricing and 100% data sovereignty.

We knew that with our founding team’s experience, having completing cloud transformations for 150+ Fortune 500 clients, we already had the insights we needed to build the last mile engineering solution to extract value from LLMs in cloud security.

The timing and solution were so compelling that we were able to capitalize, recruit a global team and launch Human Trusted Cyber Defense (HTCD) in June 2023.

Shaan Mulchandani
CEO and Co-founder
Rahul Bijlani
Co-founder
Orika Orrie
Co-Founder, VP-Ops
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Leadership Team

Our global team is distributed across the United States, South Africa, and India — with a collective experience of over 100 years in cloud technology, successfully completing $2 billion+ in cloud and security transformation projects for over 150 clients worldwide. Our leaders have held pivotal roles in global giants like Accenture, Capgemini, and Deloitte, as well as in innovative startups.

Shaan Mulchandani
Shaan Mulchandani
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Founder & CEO
Alan John
Alan John
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COO
Alan John
Isaac Zapata
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CTO
Orika Orrie
Orika Orrie
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Co-Founder & VP, Operations
Headquarters

Austin, TX

$2B+
Cloud Transformation Experience
15+
Team members
100+
Years of Cloud Expertise
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