From National Security to Securing Memories: Geoff Weber Launches Heirloom
After 20 years of global service as a U.S. Navy intelligence officer, Commander Geoff Weber is retiring — but his most ambitious mission is just beginning. On April 1, 2022, Weber will formally transition from military leadership into the private sector, where he is building what could become one of the most transformative companies in personal data preservation: Heirloom Cloud Corporation.
During his final months of active duty, Weber participated in the Department of Defense's SkillBridge program — a unique opportunity for service members to gain private sector experience before retirement. But rather than join an established defense contractor or Fortune 500 company, Weber chose an unconventional path: he embedded directly with his own venture, accelerating Heirloom’s development at precisely the moment when families worldwide are confronting an overlooked crisis — the silent disappearance of their personal digital history.
Heirloom Cloud is tackling a generational problem hiding in plain sight.
Across the world, trillions of personal photos, home movies, documents, and irreplaceable life moments are trapped on deteriorating physical media or fragmented across outdated devices and scattered cloud accounts. Unlike enterprise data, personal digital legacies remain disorganized, inaccessible, and increasingly vulnerable to loss.
Weber’s vision is to build the world’s most trusted personal content platform — not simply to digitize old media, but to consolidate, curate, and securely preserve the entire tapestry of personal history into a private cloud network where families can easily access, share, and pass down memories for generations.
“The data I handled in national security was highly sensitive, mission-critical, and globally distributed — exactly like the personal data families are struggling to organize and protect today,” Weber said. “Heirloom applies enterprise-level discipline to personal content. This is not just photo scanning. This is a new category of secure, AI-enhanced digital inheritance.”
Born out of his own effort to rescue boxes of family VHS tapes and fading photo albums during the COVID-19 pandemic, Heirloom has already digitized millions of media items, refining proprietary workflows that combine high-touch service with scalable cloud architecture. The platform integrates physical media conversion, AI-powered organization, multi-generational sharing, and a seamless succession model that ensures content ownership can be passed down without disruption.
Weber, a decorated Navy leader with combat deployments alongside SEAL teams, embassy assignments abroad, and a Master’s in Strategy from the U.S. Naval War College, now brings those operational leadership skills to a market he believes will expand dramatically as more families recognize the fragility of their digital memories.
“Every day we see families in tears as we recover moments they thought were lost forever,” Weber said. “But this is just the beginning. In a world drowning in ephemeral digital noise, people will increasingly seek privacy, provenance, and permanence for what matters most. Heirloom is building that infrastructure.”
With the SkillBridge program as a springboard, Weber now leads Heirloom Cloud Corporation full-time, inviting visionary investors, partners, and technologists to join in creating an entirely new asset class: the curated digital memory vault.