David Quisenberry

David Quisenberry is the founder and CEO of Highvault Consulting, an advisory firm that helps registered investment advisors implement AI across their organizations securely and at scale. He brings a rare combination of practitioner and security depth: as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer at a $10B+ RIA, he led the firm-wide rollout of AI, navigating the people, process, and risk challenges of getting an entire firm to adopt new tools rather than resist them.

David's expertise spans cloud security, software security, and incident response which are backed by credentials as a Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) and a GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), two of the profession's respected certifications in building secure software and responding to cyberattacks. That background gives him a clear-eyed view of both the opportunity and the risk AI brings to wealth management. He champions a process-driven model of adoption, one that meets firms where they are and advances them through measured "crawl, walk, run" phases because in his experience, steady, structured progress is what makes AI adoption stick.

Beyond his professional work, David is committed to his community. He served on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Dougy Center, the National Grief Center for Children & Families, and is a past president of the Portland chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), a global nonprofit dedicated to improving the security of software.