CEO · PRODUCT

David Blank

Marine veteran (Aircraft Mechanic, USMC), Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for building repeatable systems. Three years on the shop floor at Tejas Tubular and Lippert as EHS Manager. Eight years at Lippert in Salesforce, conversational AI, and senior systems: built chatbots deflecting ~30% of ~1M annual support interactions; data work drove $300K+ in inventory sell-through. Quoted in Forbes on enterprise AI agent adoption. Built Veriti’s full-stack codebase.

COO · SALES

Ryan Banks

Navy nuclear veteran. 25+ years running precision and heavy-industrial plants across TX/IN/TN/MI as Plant Manager, VP Operations, and General Manager. Grew Lock Joint Tube ($85M facility) from $500K to $8M peak EBITDA; drove 35% throughput improvement in 18 months. Currently President of Dun Rite Machining (Veriti’s design partner). 60/40 Veriti/Dun Rite through customer #2; transitions full-time at customer #2.