About
Who builds Shield.
Four people at the intersection of cryptography, identity verification and regulation.
MEGGA Inc.
The company behind Shield
San Francisco
Office
Private beta
Where Shield stands
4
People, one per pillar
Principles
Four commitments, each one checkable.
Each names a property of the product you can check yourself.
Verifiable
Anyone can read a certificate, with no account and no help from us.
Standards-first
C2PA Content Credentials and Adobe TrustMark, never a proprietary format.
Deterministic
The same file gives the same watermark read, every time.
Transparent
What is not live yet is written in the future tense, with its version.
Team
Four people, four pillars.
Two co-founders and two senior leads: design, engineering, compliance, operations.
Julien Gauthier
Co-Founder & Head of Product Design
Designs the surfaces on which every certificate is read, contested and trusted.
Thomas Taillefer
Co-Founder & CTO
Engineers the pipeline from signing to public verification.
Léa Marchand
Head of Compliance & Regulatory Affairs
Maps the EU AI Act and GDPR to the certificate, field by field.
Karim Benali
Head of Operations & Creator Success
Onboarding, support and creator success, day to day.