Dave Aldridge serves as Founder at Aldridge, a managed IT and cybersecurity provider in Fort Worth, TX, leading its work across Managed IT Services, Cybersecurity, and Cloud Solutions.
Dave Aldridge, a hobbyist programmer, founded the company that became Aldridge. He recognized early that computers could handle complex, time-consuming tasks but that most companies lacked the expertise to take advantage of them.
His solution was PreCursor, a program that put a user-friendly interface on computers so users could complete tasks with a click instead of memorizing and typing complex commands. After introducing it to his network and seeing it succeed, he turned the hobby into a business and founded The Aldridge Company.
As the software company grew, Dave recruited his wife, Valerie, to help run it. Valerie handled operations while Dave focused on developing new products, building programs that turned highly technical workflows into simple actions anyone could perform. As the technology landscape shifted in the early 1990s, the company moved from building standalone software to helping businesses adopt emerging technologies.