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73: Navigating Cybersecurity Start Ups and Scaling to $100M with Jose Seara
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Today, Derek Harp interviews Jose Seara, the Founder, and CEO of DeNexus.
Jose is an entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience building enterprises around critical infrastructure assets across different technologies and geographies. He turned a start-up concept into an international corporation with $100M in revenues. He is now building the global standard for Industrial Cyber Risk quantification at DeNexus and bridging the chasm between cyber threats and business impact.
Jose comes from Spain. He was born in Barcelona and grew up in Madrid. He is an intriguing person with a fascinating background. In addition to being an entrepreneur, he is also a husband, father, sailor, scuba diver, pilot, skier, builder, runner, and biker. He joins Derek today to discuss his background, professional journey, and the interesting work that gets done at DeNexus. He also shares his experience and offers nuggets of advice for budding entrepreneurs.
Show highlights:
- Jose discusses his career journey, which began with him studying Naval Engineering at a college in Madrid.
- Even though he is not very technologically savvy, Jose got exposed to technology through various work ventures.
- Jose explains what brought him into the technology and cybersecurity space.
- Jose explains how he shifted from working with traditional energy to becoming an entrepreneur working with wind and solar energies.
- Jose explains how risk-taking has always taken him out of his comfort zone.
- Learning lessons the hard way ensured Jose never forgot what he had learned.
- How Jose inadvertently planted the seeds for DeNexus before starting it.
- Jose reflects on his own entrepreneurial journey and offers advice for entrepreneurs new to the cybersecurity segment and entrepreneurs and CEOs selling cybersecurity to the OT space.
- The various steps Jose took before launching DeNexus.
- What are they doing at DeNexus?
- The role the insurance industry plays in the control systems space.
- What excites Jose about the future?
Links and resources:
Jose Seara on LinkedIn
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