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Ethan Schmertzler and the advantage of being hard to find
A psychology graduate, a furniture maker, and a cybersecurity founder walk into the same life. At Dispel, Ethan Schmertzler has spent a decade working on a practical puzzle: how to let the right people in without leaving industrial systems exposed.
Ian Schmertzler
Ian Schmertzler is co-CEO and co-founder of Dispel, an operational-technology cybersecurity company he started in 2015 with his brother Ethan. A Yale-trained industrial engineer and former crew coxswain, Ian helped build Dispel's zero trust platform around Moving Target Defense - a system that keeps shifting network access points so attackers never find a static target. He serves as a principal investigator on three NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence projects and as vice president of the National Defense Industrial Association's NY-CT chapter, working to keep factories, water utilities, and power grids running quietly and safely.