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About Three Ventures

The team, the story, and the
standard behind the work.

Named people whose depth you can see - who we are, who leads us, and how a founder-led company built in 2012 became the data-and-AI partner for the backbone economy.

Alan Morte
Alan Morte
CEO & Board Member

Co-founded Three Ventures in 2012; now CEO and board member.

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PresidentMike Glover
Mike Glover
President & Chief Architect

Leads Three Ventures' AI readiness and data governance practice.

LL.M. AI & Data PrivacyMaster Enterprise ArchitectCISM
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Curtis Morte
Curtis Morte
Co-founder & Head of Engineering

Leads the engineering teams that build and integrate client systems.

Software architectureApplication developmentSystems integration
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Mike Glover

President & Chief Architect

Mike Glover

President & Chief Architect · Three Ventures

Mike Glover is Managing Partner and President of Three Ventures. With more than 20 years of experience as a Chief Architect, CIO, and CISO, Mike was the 18th person in the world to earn TOGAF's Master Certified Enterprise Architect designation - awarded only to those who can demonstrate years of leading large, complex transformation programs with measurable business value. He holds a CISM, an EMBA in Innovation, and a Master of Laws in Artificial Intelligence and Data Privacy from the University of Toronto. Mike leads Three Ventures' strategy and client delivery, helping business owners adopt AI and technology with the discipline of an enterprise architect and the practicality of someone who's spent a career in the trenches.

Alan Morte

CEO & Board Member

Alan Morte

CEO & Board Member · Three Ventures

Alan is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Three Ventures. A founding partner since 2012, he has led the firm's evolution from principal consultant to CEO, guiding how Three Ventures helps clients accelerate, increase, and optimize their business with data and AI. Alan sets the company's strategic direction with a focus on delivering measurable business outcomes for the leaders and owners driving their businesses forward.

2012
Founded in Roseville, California
3
Builders, one idea
10+ yrs
Turning data into decisions

The Beginning

Three builders, one idea.

Three Ventures was founded in 2012 by brothers Alan and Curtis Morte and their lifelong friend Wally Hix - three builders who had been making things together since they were kids. What started as a small, founder-led consultancy was built on one idea that still defines the company: data is only valuable when it changes what a business actually does.

For more than a decade, that meant helping clients turn scattered, underused data into decisions and revenue - across analytics, marketing, cloud, and custom software. The work was practical and outcome-driven: connect the systems that weren't talking to each other, make the numbers trustworthy, and put them in front of the people who make the decisions. The company grew by solving real problems rather than selling a single product - and that builder's instinct still runs the place.

““Data is only valuable when it changes what a business actually does.””

The Bridge to AI

The same problem, one layer down.

That foundation is what made the next step obvious. As AI moved from experiment to expectation, the pattern became clear: the organizations struggling with AI weren't failing on the technology - they were failing on the data underneath it. A model can't learn from information trapped in spreadsheets, disconnected systems, and people's heads.

The same discipline Three Ventures had spent years on - governing data, integrating systems, making information reliable - is the prerequisite for AI to work at all. The data and analytics work led directly into AI data governance, because they are the same problem one layer down.

Where We Are Now

Today that work is focused where the gap between a company's systems and its reality is widest, and where the data foundation matters most before any AI initiative begins: AI readiness and AI data governance for small and mid-sized manufacturers.

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