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Are you clear on what you want from selling your business? Is your business set up for a successful exit?In this episode of 7-8 Figure Special Series I interviewed Trever Acers. Trever F. Acers is a Managing Director at Objective, Investment Banking & Valuation. He draws on his 20+ years of investment banking, acquisition, and strategy experience advising middle market companies on transaction execution and strategy.Prior to founding Objective, Trever served as a Director at TGG Capital, where he led the firm's financial and strategy consulting operations. Previously, he was Director of The Oxford Investment Group's Western U.S. private equity activities and Managing Partner at Passage Venture Capital Partners. Earlier in his career, he managed the post-acquisition integration and continuing operations of three entities with total annual revenues of $29 million for EMC Corporation, and led business performance improvement engagements for KPMG Consulting.Trever has a MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management with a finance concentration and a bachelor's degree with high honors in business administration from the University of San Diego. He holds FINRA Series 79 and Series 63 licenses and is a Registered Representative of BA Securities LLC, Member FINRA SIPC. Are you ready for the challenges of selling your business? Check this out!Show Links:Objective, Investment Banking & Valuation Website: https://www.objectiveibv.com/Trever Acers on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/treveracers/Book a call with Michelle: https://go.appointmentcore.com/book/IcFD4cGJoin our Facebook group for business owners to get help or help other business owners! The Business Ownership Group - Secrets to Scaling: https://www.facebook.com/groups/businessownershipsecretstoscalingLooking to scale your business? Get free gifts here to help you on your way: https://www.awarenessstrategies.com/
This week Nick talks to Marc AdamsMarc Adams is the CEO of Acquisitions4you, a specialized business consultancy firm that focuses on facilitating mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for small to mid-sized companies. They provide end-to-end support throughout the acquisition process, ensuring that their clients achieve strategic growth objectives. The firm's services include identifying potential acquisition targets, conducting comprehensive due diligence, negotiating terms, and managing the integration process post-acquisition. By leveraging their extensive network and industry expertise, Acquisitions4you helps businesses navigate the complexities of M&A transactions, ensuring that both the financial and operational aspects are thoroughly addressed to maximize value and minimize risks.Before Acquisitions4you, Marc served as an Advisor at Flatworld Solutions, having significantly enhanced client profitability by outsourcing specialized tasks in financial service and insurance, creating over $100M in value. As a NED at JBTM Group, Marc achieved similar value creation through strategic growth and productivity improvements. As MD EMEA at RSA Security, Marc led a team to deliver $25M in software sales with significant year-over-year growth. Marc's tenure at Thomson Reuters involved turning around the EMEA business and expanding in emerging markets. Earlier roles include senior sales and engineering positions at Centennial Software, Clearswift, EMC Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Monotype, and Intersolve, where they consistently drove successful mergers and acquisitions, brand equity, and exit strategies.Nick and Mark talk about Marc's life and his career and focus on Marc's new book - Secrets to 10xing Your Business and Cashing Out Tax-Free, the book gives guidance on how you can reshape the destiny of your business with strategies proven to not only multiply its worth but also to ensure a lucrative exit when the time is ripe. They cover chapters from the book, Power of Digital Marketing and Tax-Free Selling: Preparing for the Exit. Marc's book choices where - Secrets to 10xing Your Business and Cashing Out Tax by Marc Adamshttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Secrets-10Xing-Your-Business-Tax-Free/dp/B0CRXPBB4TDotCom Secrets: The Underground Playbook for Growing Your Company Online by Russell Brunsonhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/DotCom-Secrets-Underground-Playbook-Growing/dp/1630474770This content is issued by Zeus Capital Limited (“Zeus”) (Incorporated in England & Wales No. 4417845), which is authorised and regulated in the United Kingdom by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) for designated investment business, (Reg No. 224621) and is a member firm of the London Stock Exchange. This content is for information purposes only and neither the information contained, nor the opinions expressed within, constitute or are to be construed as an offer or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell the securities or other instruments mentioned in it. Zeus shall not be liable for any direct or indirect damages, including lost profits arising in any way from the information contained in this material. This material is for the use of intended recipients only.
Greg Alexander is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Capital 54, where he decides which entrepreneurs to bet on and which firms to invest in. He supports entrepreneurs by helping them scale and exit their firms, and he does so by sharing how he scaled and exited his own. Before opening Capital 54, Greg had two careers spanning 25 years. He co-founded professional service firm Sales Benchmark Index and served as CEO for 11 years. After scaling the firm, he successfully exited in 2017 by selling his interest. Before SBI, Greg was an executive at EMC Corporation, a leader in the data storage industry. He is the author of The Boutique: How To Start, Scale, And Sell A Professional Services Firm, among other books. Greg is also the Founder of Collective 54 and a Young Presidents' Organization member. In this episode… Entrepreneurs aspire to build businesses they can sell for a profit in the long run. However, starting and scaling a profitable business can be a daunting task. In this regard, learning from experienced professionals who have successfully grown and exited their businesses is imperative. Greg Alexander, a serial entrepreneur, was able to grow and sell his first boutique business for an impressive sum of $162 million. Despite facing numerous challenges in the journey, he overcame them with a winning combination of strong company culture, dependable team players, and an unwavering focus on the end goal. Today, he helps other founders achieve similar success by providing them with access to capital and creating a community where they can learn from his wealth of experience, make more money, work less, and ultimately achieve bigger and faster exits. In this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast, Dr. Jeremy Weisz chats with Greg Alexander, Founder of Collective 54, to discuss how he successfully grew and exited his business. Greg talks about the “F***up Fridays” culture strategy, the sales process exiting a brand and the lessons learned, how he leverages the community business model to scale Collective 54, and Capital 54's investment criteria.
Join Nicole Rex, VP of Global Marketing Campaigns at Dell Technologies, as she shares her inspiring journey of self-discovery during the pandemic, uncovering a new sense of authentic leadership in a corporate environment. Through personal reflections and experiences at Dell, she explores the power of personal branding, transforming corporate culture, and igniting inspiration in the workplace. Dive into practical tips on time management, empowering others, and driving change within any organization–only here on Listen Loudly. Show Notes Nicole “Nikki” Rex - is the VP of Experiential Events at Dell Technologies. Nicole has over 18 years of experience in marketing and public relations. Dell - is an American technology company that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Dell Technologies Inc. - is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Round Rock, Texas. It was formed as a result of the September 2016 merger of Dell and EMC Corporation. Resources Door No. 3 Website Door No. 3 LinkedIn Door No. 3 Instagram Listen to The Empowered Challenger Podcast with Prentice Howe Connect with Prentice Howe on LinkedIn Connect with Bethany Cranfield on LinkedIn
Episode 80 discusses Buying and Selling a Business, what you should consider, our guest is Trever Acers. Based out of the San Diego Area, Trever Acers is the Founder and Managing Director, Investment Banking at Objective, Investment Banking & Valuation and concurrently operates as the Leader of the Consumer Practice. He has 20+ years of investment banking, acquisition, and strategy experience advising middle market companies on transaction execution and strategy. Prior to founding Objective, Trever served as a Director at TGG Capital, where he led the firm's financial and strategy consulting operations. Previously, he was Director of The Oxford Investment Group's Western U.S. private equity activities and Managing Partner at Passage Venture Capital Partners. Earlier in his career, he managed the post-acquisition integration and continuing operations of three entities with total annual revenues of $29 million for EMC Corporation and led business performance improvement engagements for KPMG Consulting.Trever is very involved in the San Diego business community, and regularly appears as a panelist or speaker for multiple organizations including, CFO Leadership Council, Southern California Institute, and more. He is a board member of San Diego Sports Innovators, and a member of many more organizations that foster business relationships and growth in the San Diego area. He has also been recognized many times for his excellence in investment banking including being recognized as a Top Influential Business Leader in the SD 500 List by the San Diego Business Journal for the past 6 years.Trever has an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management with a finance concentration and a bachelor's degree with high honors in business administration from the University of San Diego. He holds FINRA Series 79 and Series 63 licenses and is a Registered Representative of BA Securities LLC, Member FINRA SIPC.The Business of Business, topics are divided into 4 Categories: Management, Operations, Sales, and Financial. Target Audience is Business Owners, C-Level Executives, Management, and anyone considering starting a business. Helping you run a successful profitable business.Contact me at: www.bcforg.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-fisher-72174413/
David Karofsky is a principal consultant with The Family Business Consulting Group, specializing in advising family businesses around the challenges and opportunities inherent to the family business. Prior to working with The Family Business Consulting Group, David worked in his own family business consulting practice with his father for eight years. The father-son team are the authors of So You're in the Family Business: A Guide to Sustainability. In addition, David was vice president of marketing for a software start-up where he helped launch the company and raise over $10 million in funding. David also served at EMC Corporation for eight years, holding various corporate roles, including managing operations for worldwide marketing. The recipient of multiple achievement awards, David has been a guest speaker internationally and is a mentor to current and former MBA students at Northeastern University's Graduate School of Business and serves on the Marketing Career Track Advisory Board. He is a founding member and former chair of the Boston chapter of the Young Presidents' Organization's Young Adult Forum, member of the Family Firm Institute, where he holds certificates in Family Wealth and Advanced Family Business Advising with Fellow status, member of the Board of Directors of the Rogers Foam Corporation, and a former member of the Executive Board of Directors for the Men's Associates at Hebrew Senior Life. What You'll Learn Why communication is vital as a foundation. What governance looks like in a family business. How to handle increasing complexity in ownership transitions. How to create a roadmap for successful transitions. The benefits of building a board. Timestamps [04:02] A bit about David. [06:16] Advising family businesses as a family business. [07:12] Communication is key. [11:12] Governance in family business. [15:09] Ownership transitions. [17:53] Fair and equal. [22:07] Creating the transition roadmap. [27:51] Building a board. [36:54] Overcoming the fear of the board. [39:37] ROI of the board. Memorable Quotes “Conflict is inevitable.” – David Karofsky [06:53] “Assumption is the mother of all evil.” – David Karofsky [10:30] “In family, fair sometimes is equal.” – David Karofsky [18:33] “You've got to be able to listen to other people.” – David Karofsky [36:22] Social Media David Karofsky. Websites The Family Business Consulting Group.
What do Propane tanks, cows, and air quality sensors have in common Listen in today with special CEO guest, Ken Mills of EpicIO. Ken talks backstory, but more importantly, the evolution of the company and how they're assembling and productizing some key IoT solutions that many businesses need and have life-saving potential. While the title may sound wild from agriculture and produce to medical and RSV season, those are all things your customers are asking for help with! Josh Lupresto (00:01): Welcome to the podcast that is designed to fuel your success in selling technology solutions. I'm your host, Josh Lupresto, SVP of Sales Engineering at Telarus. And this is Next Level BizTech. Josh Lupresto (00:15): Everybody. Welcome back. We've got a wild episode for you today here. The title of this episode is What Do Propane Tanks, cows and Air Quality Sensors have in Common? And you're thinking that's, that's not CCaaS. That's not security. When the world are we gonna talk about today we're not gonna give it away, but we're gonna get to it cuz they're all important and it's technology and it's fun. So today I would like to welcome on back to the show as we did a fireside chat a while back. Ken Mills, CEO of EPIC iO. Ken, welcome on. Ken Mills (00:45): Thanks, Josh. You know, a long time listener, first time caller, , and with that title I I had to bring the shirt that I felt was appropriate. You know, I like big data and I cannot lie. So I think we'll get into a bunch of topics and should be fun. Thanks for having me. Josh Lupresto (01:00): Love it, man. Let's jump in. I, I want to hear your, your personal background story for anybody that that is not gonna go. And, and listen to our awesome fireside chat. I thought, thought we talked about some cool stuff, and we did the studio. Give 'em a little bit of a background. Just you personally, you know, how, how did you get into this? How has everything come together? Where did you start out and, and, and, you know, how did you get where you're at now? Ken Mills (01:20): Yeah, I think one of the most interesting aspects is my mom is the nerd of the family. You know, she read every manual still does you know, reads every blog, watch, every watches this, every Apple keynote you know, she is on top of what's going on. And I just kind of picked that up as a kid. And, you know, we were early in the bulletin board days you know, with 56 K modems when those were cool. Mm-Hmm. if they ever were I guess they were pre-work back then. And, you know, AOL chat rooms, which are, you know, the bane of our existence and all of those experience taught me about computers and, and got me hooked on, on the technology. And I just kind of grew up in, in that space of loving tech and, and loving to learn new things. Ken Mills (02:06): And I'm just a big nerd at heart. And so, you know, I jumped at a chance to join Cisco Technologies way back when after the.com bust when they were looking for a number of growth areas and non-traditional markets. So they started this what they called emerging technologies team, where we were out there looking for new adjacent businesses, either new customer segments, new technologies, new acquisitions, and we built a team to go build those, go-to markets and build those businesses where most of the people we talked to that we said we worked for Cisco, they'd be like, oh, I know the food company. Like no different Cisco you know, Cisco networking. And, and so, you know, we didn't have that brand power in these adjacent markets that we had in routing and switching at the time. And so it was fun. Ken Mills (02:49): I learned a lot about how to, you know, take technology from an idea into, you know, an actual market and, and grow it. And then I got to spend you know, I did that for almost nine years, and I got to spend almost seven years at e EMC Corporation,
The phrase “energy crisis” has been tossed around frequently the past few years, and not without reason: as demand for fossil fuels skyrockets, climate change speeds up too. So while the U.S. puts legislation into place to help mitigate the climate crisis, there's another problem in the process - our energy grid might not be able to keep up with these environmentally friendly power alternatives. What happens now? On the latest episode of Not Your Father's Data Center Podcast, CRO and host Raymond Hawkins chats with the Vice President of Global Data Center Sales with Bloom Energy, Jeff Barber, about the energy crisis, ESG, and Bloom Energy. The two discuss: Why reducing your carbon footprint now adds time-value How Bloom Energy offers an alternative that lasts into the future What Bloom Energy is, how it generates power, and what their power-purchase agreement looks like “So, Bloom energy is solid-oxide fuel cells that are on-site, at your facility, in a micro-grid form. So this is power-generation at your facility, without the centralized grid, with the centralized grid…Bloom is intended to create energy for the facility, to be the primary energy to that facility, 24/7 365,” explained Barber, noting that these are not batteries. A California native, Barber has collected over 25 years of experience in the energy, sales, and data center industries. Though he first started working on network troubleshooting through the G-Tech Corporation as a Network Support and DEC VAX System Administrator, Barber has since held leadership positions at a number of globally recognized brands, including Hewlett-Packard, the EMC Corporation, and Oracle. Prior to joining Bloom, Barber was a Partner & EVP Sales and Business Development leader for Prime Data Centers. He is a graduate of California State University at Sacramento, with a BS in Business Administration.
Você está ouvindo o MAD, o podcast sobre a treta entre mercado e academia no mundo do design apresentado por Burity e Thoz, em um oferecimento do DesignTeam. É possível afirmar que a atualidade é caracterizada por uma revolução de dados, na descrição da EMC Corporation (2012), líder mundial em armazenamento e gerenciamento de informação. A instituição revela que já existem, no mundo, quase um septilhão de bits de dados e, conforme estimativa, até 2020, o número daqueles armazenados em computadores, servidores, celulares, smartphones e tablets venha a ser, no mínimo, multiplicado por seis. Para compreender o universo da Visualização de Dados, é importante entender os conceitos de “Dados” e “Informação”. Segundo Davenport e Prusak (1998), os dados podem ser facilmente estruturados, quando organizados e interpretados por máquinas, são facilmente quantificáveis, ou seja, números ou palavras são aglutinados, alinhados ou distribuídos de maneira organizada. Em nosso décimo terceiro episódio convidamos Patricia Prado, designer, especialista em UX design, co-fundadora da Ideativo Design e mestre em interfaces de comunicação e interação com objetivos para enviar mensagem com eficiência (Dataviz), além de voluntária do IxDA como Líder Local e professora da pós-graduação e espacialização da Univali. Linkedin do convidado: https://www.linkedin.com/in/prbprado/ Link da tese de mestrado --------------------------------- O M.A.D tem como objetivo provocar o debate e trazer assuntos que vem sendo tratados na academia entendendo como podemos aproximá-lo do mercado e dos profissionais de design. M.A.D. Mercado e academia de design. Provocando diálogos necessários! --------------------------------- Links relacionados: Vídeo do médico Hans Rosling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe9Lw_nlFQU https://www.udesc.br/ceart/ppgdesign/dissertacoes https://ideativodesign.com.br/study/ ----------------------------- Siga-nos nas redes sociais! Rafael Burity Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafaelburity Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rafaelburity/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/rafaelburity Thoz Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thoz/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thoz_/
Jon Darbyshire is the Co-Founder & CEO of SmartSuite. In 2021, Jon and his team launched SmartSuite, the work management platform that manages any process, from any industry, on one platform. Now, SmartSuite unites essential elements used to get work done, regardless of company size or type. In the year 2000, Jon founded Archer Technologies, an enterprise governance, risk and, compliance software, giving business users—not developers—the ability to adapt software to their unique business requirements. Jon and the Archer team built a flexible, award winning platform and solution suite that became the mainstay of governance, risk and compliance teams for some of the world's most powerful organizations, including 1 in 3 of the Fortune 100. Archer Technologies was purchased by EMC Corporation in 2010. Throughout his career, Jon has been dedicated to automating everyday, essential business tasks to create smarter, more efficient organizations, no matter what the industry. Prior to Archer Technologies, Jon held leadership positions at both EY and Price Waterhouse, honing his skills in understanding the need to automate and simplify work for the enterprise. -- Critical Mass Business Talk Show is Orange County, CA's longest-running business talk show, focused on offering value and insight to middle-market business leaders in the OC and beyond. Hosted by Ric Franzi, business partner at Renaissance Executive Forums Orange County. Learn more about Ric at www.ricfranzi.com. Catch up on past Critical Mass Business Talk Show interviews... YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gHKT2gmF LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/g2PzRhjQ Podbean: https://lnkd.in/eWpNVRi Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gRd_863w Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gruexU6m #orangecountyca #mastermind #ceopeergroups #peergroups #peerlearning
When it comes to the success of the company, the employees we bring on play a significant part in the journey toward those goals. In this episode, Jon Darbyshire discusses how recruiting talented individuals will not only assist us in putting our visions for the company into action but will also contribute to the development of a culture that values achievement. In 2021, Jon Darbyshire and his team launched SmartSuite, the work management platform that manages any process, from any industry, on one platform. Now, SmartSuite unites essential elements used to get work done, regardless of company size or type. In the year 2000, Jon founded Archer Technologies, an enterprise governance, risk and compliance software, giving business users—not developers—the ability to adapt software to their unique business requirements. Jon and the Archer team built a flexible, award winning platform and solution suite that became the mainstay of governance, risk and compliance teams for some of the world's most powerful organizations, including 1 in 3 of the Fortune 100. Archer Technologies was purchased by EMC Corporation in 2010. Throughout his career, Jon has been dedicated to automating everyday, essential business tasks to create smarter, more efficient organizations, no matter what the industry. Prior to Archer Technologies, Jon held leadership positions at both EY and Price Waterhouse, honing his skills in understanding the need to automate and simplify work for the enterprise. In this episode: Jon shares about the beginnings of the Smart Suite and Archer Technologies Understanding the services that an organization wanted to offer and productizing those services As established leaders, we have a responsibility to aid in the education and motivation of future generations to assume leadership roles Incorporating family members of employees into workplace activities to foster an inclusive and transparent culture Jon discusses how technology will be important for leaders going forward There are different types of leaders and companies, and a leader must focus on hiring the right people in order for the company to be successful Key Takeaways: Train people to be potential leaders Create a culture where families of employees can be involved Success is not only dependent on the leaders but also the people we lead Remote work is not going go away Executing a vision requires selling the vision to people who want to do them Tweetable Quotes: “It's not as much about the vision of what they have, it's about the execution of the vision that's been in place for some period of time already. And how to sell that execution to the people on the teams,.” - Jon Darbyshire “Most employees, when they would ask questions, it wasn't about changing the vision or the objectives for the quarter. It was about why did you make that decision? Why is that the goal that we have? They just want to hear you explain that to them in a way that they can understand, even if they don't agree, they wanna know, how did you get to that place?” - Jon Darbyshire Connect with Mark onhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/havenner/ ( )https://www.facebook.com/HelloSmartSuite (Facebook), https://www.linkedin.com/company/hellosmartsuite/ (LinkedIn), http://@hellosmartsuite (Twitter) and check out hishttp://www.havenner.com/ ( )website. Email: denis@leadingchangepartners.com Website:http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/ ( http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/) Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/ ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeadershipIsChanging/) Leadership is Changing LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/ (https://www.linkedin.com/company/leadership-is-changing-podcast/)
About Jon:In 2021, Jon and his team launched SmartSuite, the work management platform that manages any process, from any industry, on one platform. Now, SmartSuite unites essential elements used to get work done, regardless of company size or type.In the year 2000, Jon founded Archer Technologies, an enterprise governance, risk and, compliance software, giving business users—not developers—the ability to adapt software to their unique business requirements. Jon and the Archer team built a flexible, award winning platform and solution suite that became the mainstay of governance, risk and compliance teams for some of the world's most powerful organizations, including 1 in 3 of the Fortune 100. Archer Technologies was purchased by EMC Corporation in 2010. Throughout his career, Jon has been dedicated to automating everyday, essential business tasks to create smarter, more efficient organizations, no matter what the industry. Prior to Archer Technologies, Jon held leadership positions at both EY and Price Waterhouse, honing his skills in understanding the need to automate and simplify work for the enterprise.Links From The Podcasthttps://www.smartsuite.com/https://www.facebook.com/HelloSmartSuite/https://www.instagram.com/hellosmartsuite/https://www.instagram.com/hellosmartsuite/https://www.linkedin.com/company/hellosmartsuite/https://www.smartsuite.com/contact-saleshttps://www.peer2peerrealestate.comhttps://www.facebook.com/peer2peerrealstate@Williamp2pre (Twitter)https://www.linkedin.com/in/williemorales/Book(s)recommendedOutliers- Malcom Gladwell Thanks Jon for being on the PodcastWhat did you think about today's subject? Please go to apple podcasts look for us at peer 2 peer real estate podcast, please subscribe and leave a review. Don't give up on your dreams, fight for it and guard it. Keep the momentum going, Good things will happen. Thanks for listening and be safe Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week Rachael and Eric discuss the recently published "Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War" report from Microsoft and the accompanying blog post by Microsoft President and Vice Chair Brad Smith. They share insights and raise lingering questions on the report's findings and the five conclusions Microsoft framed from the war's first four months. They also briefly share insights from the June 2022 cyberdefense research report "The IT Army of Ukraine" from Stefan Soesanto of the Center for Security Studies in Zurich. So much to unpack in this week's episode! There will definitely be follow-on episodes with key players from these reports that you won't want to miss! Host Rachael Lyon Rachael Lyon brings her journalistic curiosity and more than 20 years in technology working with global industry leaders and innovative start-ups to dig into today's cyber news and trends impacting us all. Co-host Eric Trexler Eric Trexler is Vice President of Sales, Global Governments, Forcepoint. Eric has more than 21 years of experience in the technology industry with both the public and private sectors including the DoD, Civilian, and Intelligence components. Prior to joining Forcepoint, Eric was the Executive Director for Civilian and National Security Programs at McAfee, formerly Intel Security. Prior to joining McAfee in 2010, he managed multi-million dollar accounts at Salesforce.com, EMC Corporation and Sybase, Inc. Eric served as an Airborne Ranger with the United States Army for four years, specializing in communications. He holds a bachelor's degree in marketing and an MBA with a concentration in strategy, both from the University of Maryland at College Park. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-trexler-8b6b39/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachaellyon/ For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e187
This week co-hosts Eric and Rachael are coming to you live from Cabo San Lucas! They cover hot topics including CyberWire's new CISA Cybersecurity alerts, the impact of ransomware on a 157 year-old university in Illinois, Colonial Pipeline's nearly $1M proposed fine by the Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and the recent surge in tractor hacking! Rachael Lyon Rachael Lyon brings her journalistic curiosity and more than 20 years in technology working with global industry leaders and innovative start-ups to dig into today's cyber news and trends impacting us all. Eric Trexler Eric Trexler is Vice President of Sales, Global Governments, Forcepoint. Eric has more than 21 years of experience in the technology industry with both the public and private sectors including the DoD, Civilian, and Intelligence components. Prior to joining Forcepoint, Eric was the Executive Director for Civilian and National Security Programs at McAfee, formerly Intel Security. Prior to joining McAfee in 2010, he managed multi-million dollar accounts at Salesforce.com, EMC Corporation and Sybase, Inc. Eric served as an Airborne Ranger with the United States Army for four years, specializing in communications. He holds a bachelor's degree in marketing and an MBA with a concentration in strategy, both from the University of Maryland at College Park. For links and resources discussed in this episode, please visit our show notes at https://www.forcepoint.com/govpodcast/e183
Join us for this conversation between David Goulden, CFO at the world's leading provider of online travel and related services Booking Holdings — which includes Booking.com, Priceline, OpenTable, Kayak, and others — and Jeff Epstein, Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. David has operated in multiple international roles, both directly and indirectly involved in finance. His path to CFO is not the typical story of a CPA/accountant or investment banker that we normally see. Having acted as CEO at EMC Information Infrastructure after working in sales, engineering, and product development within the EMC Corporation, as well as COO for the Americas and Asia Pacific at Getronics N.V. earlier in his career, David has multinational, and multidisciplinary insights to draw from. He shares lessons from his broad and extensive career, and brings a worldly set of perspectives and knowledge to this discussion with the Airbase community.
Oral Arguments for the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Acqis, LLC v. EMC Corporation
Oral Arguments for the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Acqis, LLC v. EMC Corporation
Terry oversees AMD's North American growth with channel partners. He is responsible for the sale of commercial client and server offerings and server components to all partner types including resellers, distributors, national solutions providers, and MSPs. He is driving a go-to-marketing strategy that is aligned with the industry's leading OEMs and ISVs. Prior to joining AMD, Terry spent 11 years at HPE in a number of partner-facing and customer-facing leadership roles. He led high-performing teams and successfully sold products and solutions to some of the company's largest customers and business partners. Prior to joining Hewlett Packard, Terry held executive management positions at EMC Corporation, Data General, and SEPATON, Inc. He began his career in sales at Burroughs Corporation (now Unisys). Terry graduated from Boston College's Carroll School of Management with a BS degree in Computer Science and Marketing and lives in Hopkinton, MA. Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/salescommunity/message
In this HCI Podcast episode, Dr. Jonathan H. Westover (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanhwestover/) talks with Greg Alexander about how executive leadership can effectively and sustainably scale their firm, as well as how to choose the right time to exit the organization. See the video here: https://youtu.be/0MkGEHP20EY. Greg Alexander (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gpalexander/) is Founder of Collective 54. He contributes to entrepreneurs by helping them scale and exit their firms. Greg co-founded SBI, a professional service firm, and served as CEO. Prior to SBI, Greg was an executive at EMC Corporation, a leader in the data storage industry. Check out Dr. Westover's new book, The Alchemy of Truly Remarkable Leadership, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/leadershipalchemy. Check out the latest issue of the Human Capital Leadership magazine, here: https://www.innovativehumancapital.com/hci-magazine. Ranked in the Top 10 Performance Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/performance_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 10 Workplace Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/workplace_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 HR Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/hr_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Talent Management Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/talent_management_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 15 Personal Development and Self-Improvement Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/personal_development_podcasts/ ; Ranked in the Top 30 Leadership Podcasts: https://blog.feedspot.com/leadership_podcasts/
Join Randy Seidl and David Nour for this episode of the Sales Community's Tech Sales Insights podcast, as they host Steve Fitz, Chief Revenue Officer at Sumo Logic. Steve is responsible for Sumo Logic's worldwide customer and field operations efforts, including aspects of customer-facing activities including sales, channels, customer success, and support, as well as professional services. Prior to joining Sumo Logic, Steve was Sr. Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for MapR. He was also President & GM of Avaya U.S. Operations leading the go-to-market transformation in Avaya's private equity turnaround. Previous to that Steve held executive positions in general management and sales at Isilon Systems and EMC Corporation, leading and scaling the go-to-market organizations globally for both later stage startup and growth companies. Steve will be our guest on LinkedIn LIVE today at Noon ET, so hope you'll join us for a live Q&A. We also turn the show notes from this podcast into more in-depth articles, so check them out on SalesCommunity.com. We have some great guests coming up, so hope you'll subscribe to Tech Sales Insights wherever you consume podcasts or at SalesCommunity.Com/Events. Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/salescommunity/message
Join David Nour and Randy Seidl on this episode of the Sales Community's Tech Sales Insights Podcast with Keegan Riley, the Chief Revenue Officer for Sysdig. Sysdig is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity startup with over $200M in VC funding from Accel Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, Insight Venture Partners, Glynn Capital, and Goldman Sachs. Before joining Sysdig in 2018, Keegan was VP and General Manager of North America Data Storage at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, running a $1.5B/year P&L. He joined HPE via the acquisition of Nimble Storage, where as VP of Americas Sales he helped build the company from VC backed startup, through a successful IPO, and the eventual acquisition to HPE. Prior to Nimble, he held engineering, sales, and leadership roles at HP Lefthand Networks, EMC Corporation, and multiple startups. Outside of work, Keegan dedicates most of his philanthropic efforts to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He is part of the St. Jude Chicago Advisory Council and serves as the Committee Chair for the St. Jude Chicago Golf Classic, an event that has raised over $25M for the St. Jude Mission. He's also participated in the St. Jude Memphis Marathon several times as a sponsor, fundraiser, and (very slow 5k) runner. Keegan holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and an MBA in Management and Organization from the USC Marshall School of Business. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife and two daughters. Keegan is also our Tech Sales Insights Live on LinkedIn today at Noon ET - Join us! Show notes from this podcast will be featured in the Sales Community. Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/salescommunity/message
Greg Alexander is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Capital 54, where he decides which entrepreneurs to bet on and which firms to invest in. He supports entrepreneurs by helping them scale and exit their firms, and he does so by sharing how he scaled and exited his own. Prior to opening Capital 54, Greg had two careers spanning 25 years. He co-founded Sales Benchmark Index (SBI), a professional service firm, and served as CEO for 11 years. After scaling the firm, he successfully exited in 2017 by selling his interest. Prior to SBI, he was an executive at EMC Corporation, a leader in the data storage industry. He is a published author of The Boutique: How To Start, Scale, And Sell A Professional Services Firm among other books. He is also the founder of Collective 54 and a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO). Greg Alexander, the Founder and Chief Investment Officer for Capital 54, is John Corcoran's guest in this episode of the Smart Business Revolution Podcast. Greg talks about going into sales and becoming an entrepreneur as opposed to becoming a gangster. He also discusses starting a family office and building Collective 54 for other boutique professional service firms. Stay tuned.
The lens of a product guy focused on Manufacturing In this week’s podcast, Ken Forster interviews Harinderpal Hanspal, Founder and Principal of Thing Company and thought leader on Open Manufacturing. Hans is a technology industry veteran and entrepreneur driving technology-enabled business and product transformations in technology, industrial, telecom and media companies. His technology and operations experience span over two decades of turning scrappy startup and corporate innovation ideas into growth-oriented and profitable businesses based on transactional and recurring revenue models. Hans co-founded Nurego in 2013 to help Industrial IoT platforms transform their legacy quote-to-cash systems to support subscription, pay-per-use, and pay-per-outcome revenue models for their IoT and software-enabled products and services. He sold the company to GE in 2017 and went on to lead GE Digital’s Platform Monetization and Customer Development strategy. Earlier in his career, Hans held global sales, product management, corporate strategy, and customer success leadership positions at several enterprise software and hardware companies, including Pivotal Software, VMware, and EMC Corporation (now Dell EMC). In his spare time, Hans leads Seattle’s 4100+ member IoT Hub Meetup group.
He is the General Partner at Amity Ventures where he focuses his energy and expertise on partnering with entrepreneurs to build companies of consequence. He has spent three decades starting, building, and investing in technology businesses. His thematic areas of focus include Machine Learning, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Autonomous Logistics, Data Analytics, Cloud Computing, Personal/Mobile Commerce, FinTech, and Enterprise Software. He has served on the boards of numerous technology companies over the past two decades including, most recently, Gigamon, LevelUp (acquired by Grubhub), Ocarina (acquired by DELL), Turbonomic, WePay, Qumulo, and ENJOY. He is currently on the board at Vowel, an emerging leader in enterprise collaboration, Column, a platform for public notice, and Playco, a leader in mobile gaming. He began his career at Price Waterhouse in Boston. In late 1986, he began to sense the opportunities arising in the information age of enterprise computing and joined an exciting young company in Natick, Massachusetts, EMC Corporation. He relocated to San Francisco in 1987 to help lead EMC initiatives in Silicon Valley. EMC was acquired by Dell in September 2016 for $67 billion. In 1998, he embarked on his own entrepreneurial journey and co-founded StorageNetworks, a pioneer in cloud computing. He led the company as its CEO and completed an IPO in 2000. After stepping down as CEO in 2003, he formed his own investment firm, Stowe Capital, focusing on early-stage investments in enterprise software, data center infrastructure, and consumer internet companies. He was a member of the faculty at MIT Sloan School of Management from 2003 to 2006, where he taught entrepreneurship. He was also a Distinguished Executive in Residence and member of the faculty at Boston College from 2003 to 2010, where he taught at the Carroll School of Management. In 2006, he joined Highland Capital Partners, a leading global venture capital firm, where he led investments in early and growth-stage technology companies, eventually becoming the Managing General Partner of the firm. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family, serving as a Trustee at Sacred Heart Schools Atherton from 2012 through June 2018. He joined the Board of Trustees of Boston College in 2000 and currently serves as a Trustee Associate. He is also an advisor to the Shea Center for Entrepreneurship at Boston College. He holds a BS in Management from Boston College, an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and an Honorary Doctorate from Babson College. Join Randy Seidl and David Nour on this episode of the #TechSalesInsights podcast with Peter Bell. Don't forget, two quick points: Seidl and Nour host each week's guest at a Twitter Chat, so search Twitter for #TechSalesInsights for the latest updates, and We turn the show notes from these podcasts into more in-depth articles, so check them out at SalesCommunity.com. Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/salescommunity/message
With more than 30 years of enterprise technology industry experience, he has a track record of scaling both emerging and established companies for rapid global growth. As President of Actifio from February 2011 until May 2019, he helped drive this copy data management software pioneer to a unicorn valuation of $1.3 billion, more than 3,500 global customers, and a 50% CAGR. He co-developed the company's strategy and led sales, presales, channels, and OEM distribution, from pre-revenue to achieving high growth, positive cash flow, and global operations. Prior to Actifio, he served as the President of enterprise storage technology provider XIV, responsible for the company's business direction and go-to-market model, including sales, marketing, and global services operations. After XIV was acquired by IBM in 2008, he spent three years as Vice President of IBM Storage, generating more than $1 billion in total sales. He spent six years as CEO of CentrePath Network, and prior to that spent 12 years helping to grow EMC Corporation from $80 million to more than $10 billion in annual global sales, serving in several senior management positions culminating in Senior Vice President of Sales. He served on the boards of AppIQ until its acquisition by HP in 2005, and Diligent, a deduplication software pioneer acquired by IBM. He currently serves as chairman of the board of Weka.io, maker of a software-defined file system, and is a board member of Titus Software, a Blackstone portfolio company. He is active as a member of YPO (Young Presidents' Organization), and with his Alma Mater, Boston College. Join Randy Seidl and David Nour on this episode of the Sales Community Tech Sales Insights podcast with Jim Sullivan, President, and CEO of NWN Corporation. We turn the show notes from our podcasts into unique #TechSalesInsights position papers, so come join us in the Sales Community to learn more. Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/salescommunity/message
He is a global technology board director, CEO, CRO, executive recruiter, sales community leader, consultant, advisor, and investor with extensive sales and executive leadership experience. Put simply, he helps companies and individuals grow. He is known for his unique ability to scale emerging growth and Fortune 500 technology companies as well as individual's careers. Uniquely, he has worked in startups/smaller companies and industry-leading organizations such as Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems, StorageTek, and EMC Corporation. He has a record of consistently increasing company value through his strategic leadership, go-to-market expertise, people skills, and his extensive executive relationship network. His COVID moment, that you'll hear about in this episode, led to his planned launch of the SALES COMMUNITY this month as a sales social network with a mission to be the best resource to add value to technology sales professionals by providing a community where members can: promote equity, diversity, and inclusion, learn more and grow, give and get feedback, network, access a library of best in class resources, and have fun. Join us on this inaugural episode of the Tech Sales Insights with the Sales Community founder and CEO, my friend, Randy Seidl. Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/salescommunity/message
Ever wanted to get in the heads of some of the top CEO's in the country, and see just what they are thinking? Here is your chance. Welcome to the Syniti CEO TO CEO Podcast, designed to unlock the things business leaders cannot see and help them develop actionable M&A&D strategies to remain resilient during these times.The first podcast will feature Joe Tucci, former Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation, now Dell EMC, and Chairman and Co-Founder of Bridge Growth Partners.
Hear how Susan Permut career journey from serving as EMC Corporation’s Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary for 23 years to provide experiential corporate governance courses as an adjunct professor at the Boston University School of Law and is the founder and principal consultant at Royce Road Advisors LLC.
I was super excited to have Reynolds Bish on Accelerate OC. He’s had an illustrious career in the technology industry, mainly here in Southern California, and we had a lot to discuss. He is currently the CEO and a Member of the Board of Directors of Kofax, one of the largest software companies in Orange County, and he also has employees in 35 countries and over 25,000 customers. He’s on his second tour of duty with Kofax, and we talked about that and the fun world of private equity. In an incredibly unique story, he shared how Kofax was sold 3 times in less than 3 years - what an experience!Reynolds is super involved in our community outside of his company. He’s on the board of OCTANe, where we serve together, and he’s also on the board of Trustees at The Pegasus School in Huntington Beach, one of my kids’ rival schools. Ha. He’s is on and has been on other company boards as well, both public and private companies. And before Kofax he co-founded and was CEO of Captiva Software in San Diego, and successfully grew and ran it for many years. It was a NASDAQ listed company and was eventually acquired by EMC Corporation.He’s been an E&Y Entrepreneur of the year and a corporate director of the year. And like me, he’s a Big 10 guy (Penn State) for his university alma mater.Another one of the things I was excited to talk with Reynolds about is the pace of change he’s seeing now vs. earlier in his career in the software industry.
Jeanne's guest is author, speaker, Jackie Glenn tells her story in her new book, "Lift as I Climb." Jackie Glenn is a highly accomplished Human Resources Executive practicing across the HR spectrum including HR Strategic plans, Talent Development, and Diversity and Inclusion. She is currently Vice President/Global Chief Diversity Officer for EMC Corporation. In this position, she leads EMC's worldwide diversity and inclusion strategy, continuously reinforcing global diversity and inclusion as a business imperative. Through collaboration with senior leadership on assessment, action planning, and cultural change, she designs and delivers creative initiatives tied to the development of an innovative and inclusive workforce, as well as related components of talent management, employee relations, change management and compliance. Jackie joined EMC in 2000, as the Director of HR Operations for the Sales Division. In that capacity, she provided strategic and tactical Human Resources support to EMC sales groups, comprising more than 2,000 employees at both domestic and international sites. Jackie puts her time in with various organizations to continue this effort, Children's Services of Roxbury, Girls Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts, the African American Museum-Boston, and the Greater Boston Sickle Cell Anemia boards all benefit from her insights and experience. Overall, in her 20 plus year career across the Human Resource spectrum, Jackie has managed and implemented programs in Employee Relations, Training, and Development, Recruiting, Organizational Development, and Consulting and Coaching. Her leadership as the VP, Global Chief Diversity Officer at EMC has introduced best-in-class practices, which includes the development of several groundbreaking efforts, including the design and implementation of an innovative and mandatory D&l curriculum, institutionalization of the company's Transgender Reassignment Program, the launch of its High Potential Women's Programs and expansion of employee resource groups. ___________________________________________ Table Fries is hosted by Jeanne Hopkins CMO at Lola.com which is a program on the Funnel Radio Channel.
Jackie Glenn is the former Chief Diversity Officer of EMC Corporation, Dell, author of Lift as I Climb: An Immigrant Girl’s Journey Through Corporate America and founder of Glenn Diversity & HR Solutions. Jackie’s adaptation to American culture as an immigrant from Jamaica helped her cultivate skills and insights that uniquely qualified her to lead EMC’s efforts to create a diverse workforce, and an environment that would retain top talent from around the globe. On her journey, Jackie identified 10 critical behaviours or ‘gems’ that all organisations must practice to create a truly inclusive environment that enables diverse teams to thrive. In this episode, we were honored that Jackie shared 4 of her 10 “gems” with us.
Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us for the innovations of the future! Todays episode is scraping the surface of cryptography. Cryptography is derived from the Greek words kryptos, which stands for hidden and grafein, which stands for to write. Through history, cryptography has meant the process of concealing the contents of a message from all except those who know the key. Dating back to 1900 BC in Egypt and Julius Caesar using substitution cyphers, encryption used similar techniques for thousands of years, until a little before World War II. Vigenere designed the first known cipher thatused an encryption key in the 16th century. Since then with most encryption, you convert the contents, known as plaintext, into encrypted information that's otherwise unintelligible, known as cipher text. The cypher is a pair of algorithms - one to encrypt, the other to decrypt. Those processes are done by use of a key. Encryption has been used throughout the ages to hide messages. Thomas Jefferson built a wheel cypher. The order of the disks you put in the wheel was the key and you would provide a message, line the wheels up and it would convert the message into cypher text. You would tell the key to the person on the other end, they would put in the cypher text and out would pop the message. That was 1795 era encryption and is synonymous with what we call symmetrical key cryptography, which was independently invented by Etienne Bazeries and used well into the 1900s by the US Army. The Hebern rotor machine in the 19th century gave us an electro-mechanical version of the wheel cypher and then everything changed in encryption with the introduction of the Enigma Machine, which used different rotors placed into a machine and turned at different speeds based on the settings of those rotors. The innovations that came out of breaking that code and hiding the messages being sent by the Allies kickstarted the modern age of encryption. Most cryptographic techniques rely heavily on the exchange of cryptographic keys. Symmetric-key cryptography refers to encryption methods where both senders and receivers of data share the same key and data is encrypted and decrypted with algorithms based on those keys. The modern study of symmetric-key ciphers revolves around block ciphers and stream ciphers and how these ciphers are applied. Block ciphers take a block of plaintext and a key, then output a block of ciphertext of the same size. DES and AES are block ciphers. AES, also called Rijndael, is a designated cryptographic standard by the US government. AES usually uses a key size of 128, 192 or 256 bits. DES is no longer an approved method of encryption triple-DES, its variant, remains popular. Triple-DES uses three 56-bit DES keys and is used across a wide range of applications from ATM encryption to e-mail privacy and secure remote access. Many other block ciphers have been designed and released, with considerable variation in quality. Stream ciphers create an arbitrarily long stream of key material, which is combined with a plaintext bit by bit or character by character, somewhat like the one-time pad encryption technique. In a stream cipher, the output stream is based on an internal state, which changes as the cipher operates. That state's change is controlled by the key, and, in some stream ciphers, by the plaintext stream as well. RC4 is an example of a well-known stream cipher. Cryptographic hash functions do not use keys but take data and output a short, fixed length hash in a one-way function. For good hashing algorithms, collisions (two plaintexts which produce the same hash) are extremely difficult to find, although they do happen. Symmetric-key cryptosystems typically use the same key for encryption and decryption. A disadvantage of symmetric ciphers is that a complicated key management system is necessary to use them securely. Each distinct pair of communicating parties must share a different key. The number of keys required increases with the number of network members. This requires very complex key management schemes in large networks. It is also difficult to establish a secret key exchange between two communicating parties when a secure channel doesn't already exist between them. You can think of modern cryptography in computers as beginning with DES, or the Data Encryption Standard, us a 56-bit symmetric-key algorithm developed by IBM and published in 1975, with some tweaks here and there from the US National Security Agency. In 1977, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman claimed they could build a machine for $20 million dollars that could find a DES key in one day. As computers get faster, the price goes down as does the time to crack the key. Diffie and Hellman are considered the inventors of public-key cryptography, or asymmetric key cryptography, which they proposed in 1976. With public key encryption, two different but mathematically related keys are used: a public key and a private key. A public key system is constructed so that calculation of the private key is computationally infeasible from knowledge of the public key, even though they are necessarily related. Instead, both keys are generated secretly, as an interrelated pair. In public-key cryptosystems, the public key may be freely distributed, while its paired private key must remain secret. The public key is typically used for encryption, while the private or secret key is used for decryption. Diffie and Hellman showed that public-key cryptography was possible by presenting the Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol. The next year, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman developed the RSA encryption algorithm at MIT and founded RSA Data Security a few years later in 1982. Later, it became publicly known that asymmetric cryptography had been invented by James H. Ellis at GCHQ, a British intelligence organization and that both the Diffie-Hellman and RSA algorithms had been previously developed in 1970 and were initially called “non-secret encryption.” Apparently Ellis got the idea reading a bell labs paper about encrypting voice communication from World War II. Just to connect some dots here, Alan Turing, who broke the Enigma encryption, visited the proposed author of that paper, Shannon, in 1943. This shouldn't take anything away from Shannon, who was a brilliant mathematical genius in his own right, and got to see Gödel, Einstein, and others at Princeton. Random note: he invented wearables to help people cheat at roulette. Computer nerds have been trying leverage their mad skills to cheat at gambling for a long time. By the way, he also tried to cheat at, er, I mean, program chess very early on, noting that 10 to the 120th power was the game-tree complexity of chess and wrote a paper on it. Of course someone who does those things as a hobby would be widely recognized as the father of informational theory. RSA grew throughout the 80s and 90s and in 1995, they spun off a company called VeriSign, who handled patent agreements for the RSA technology until the patents wore out, er, I mean expired. RSA Security was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2006 for $2.1 billion and was a division of EMC until EMC was acquired by Dell in 2016. They also served as a CA - that business unit was sold in 2010 to Symantec for $1.28B. RSA has made a number of acquisitions and spun other businesses off over the years, helping them get into more biometric encryption options and other businesses. Over time the 56 bit key size of DES was too small and it was followed up by Triple-DES in 1998. And Advanced Encryption Standard, or AES, also in 1998. Diffie-Hellman and RSA, in addition to being the first public examples of high quality public-key cryptosystems have been amongst the most widely used. In addition to encryption, public-key cryptography can be used to implement digital signature schemes. A digital signature is somewhat like an ordinary signature; they have the characteristic that they are easy for a user to produce, but difficult for anyone else to forge. Digital signatures can also be permanently tied to the content of the message being signed as they cannot be moved from one document to another as any attempt will be detectable. In digital signature schemes, there are two algorithms: one for signing, in which a secret key is used to process the message (or a hash of the message or both), and one for verification, in which the matching public key is used with the message to check the validity of the signature. RSA and DSA are two of the most popular digital signature schemes. Digital signatures are central to the operation of public key infrastructures and to many network security schemes (SSL/TLS, many VPNs, etc). Digital signatures provide users with the ability to verify the integrity of the message, thus allowing for non-repudiation of the communication. Public-key algorithms are most often based on the computational complexity of hard problems, often from number theory. The hardness of RSA is related to the integer factorization problem, while Diffie-Hellman and DSA are related to the discrete logarithm problem. More recently, elliptic curve cryptography has developed in which security is based on number theoretic problems involving elliptic curves. Because of the complexity of the underlying problems, most public-key algorithms involve operations such as modular multiplication and exponentiation, which are much more computationally expensive than the techniques used in most block ciphers, especially with typical key sizes. As a result, public-key cryptosystems are commonly hybrid systems, in which a fast symmetric-key encryption algorithm is used for the message itself, while the relevant symmetric key is sent with the message, but encrypted using a public-key algorithm. Hybrid signature schemes are often used, in which a cryptographic hash function is computed, and only the resulting hash is digitally signed. OpenSSL is a software library that most applications use to access the various encryption mechanisms supported by the operating systems. OpenSSL supports Diffie-Hellman and various versions of RSA, MD5, AES, Base, sha, DES, cast and rc. OpenSSL allows you to create ciphers, decrypt information and set the various parameters required to encrypt and decrypt data. There are so many of these algorithms because people break them and then a new person has to come along and invent one and then version it, then add more bits to it, etc. At this point, I personally assume that all encryption systems can be broken. This might mean that the system is broken while encrypting, or the algorithm itself is broken once encrypted. A great example would be an accidental programming mistake allowing a password to be put into the password hint rather than in the password. Most flaws aren't as simple as that. Although Kerckhoffs's principle teaches us that the secrecy of your message should depend on the secrecy of the key, and not on the secrecy of the system used to encrypt the message. Some flaws are with the algorithms themselves, though. At this point most of those are public and security without a password or private key they just take too long to decrypt to be worth anything once decrypted. This doesn't mean we don't encrypt things, it just means that in addition to encryption we now add another factor to that security. But we'll leave the history of two-factor security to another episode. Finally, RSA made a lot of money because they used ciphers that were publicly reviewed and established as a standard. Public review of various technological innovations allows for commentary and making it better. Today, you can trust most encryption systems because due to that process, it costs more to decrypt what you're sending over the wire than what is being sent is worth. In other words, collaboration trumps secrecy.
From a Kid in a Hardware Store to a Leading Debt Buyer! Mike Boyle Interview on Capital Club Radio Join Michael Flock of FLOCK Specialty Finance as he interviews Mike Boyle. Mike is the Founder of C&E Acquisitions (C&E), a debt buyer based in Bel Air, Maryland focused on asset purchases in the healthcare space. Following the sale of C&E Acquisitions to Diverse Funding, he became Executive Vice President of Diverse, a leading middle market debt buyer. Mike discusses lessons learned from his previous work experience, including a stint at a hardware store that surprisingly carried through to his career in debt purchasing. Mike started the company while he was an account executive at EMC Corporation where he was selling data center and infrastructure services to hospitals and law firms. He gained an appreciation for technology while working at Systems Alliance where he sold technology solutions to the university marketplace. Mike first learned financial analysis skills at Partners First Holdings where he managed the financial aspect of its outsourcing relationship with FDR. He also had gained valuable exposure to advertising principles when he started his career at MBNA managing major advertising campaigns including the launch of the Platinum Card. Mike was the first in his family to graduate from college earning BA degrees in Business Administration and Marketing before adding an MBA in Finance from Loyola University Maryland. He is the proud father of three children. Capital Club Radio Hosted by: Michael Flock Sponsored by: Flock Specialty Finance Providing a forum for leaders in the middle market segment which has typically been undeserved by traditional banking. Listeners gain valuable business insights and perspectives to deal with market uncertainty. Topics include: key success factors, both personal and professional, dealing with adversity, outlook for the industry and your business. For more info about Michael Flock and Flock Specialty Finance visit: www.FlockFinance.com To listen to more episodes visit: www.CapitalClubRadio.com To nominate or submit a guest request visit: https://www.OnAirGuest.com To view more photos visit: www.ProBusinessPictures.com ‹ › × × Previous Next jQuery(function() { // Set blueimp gallery options jQuery.extend(blueimp.Gallery.prototype.options, { useBootstrapModal: false, hidePageScrollbars: false }); });
Sales Game Changers | Tip-Filled Conversations with Sales Leaders About Their Successful Careers
Read the complete transcript to this episode on The Sales Game Changers Podcast website. BILL'S CLOSING TIP TO EMERGING SALES LEADERS: "Continue to ask, continue to talk to your clients, learn more and more about them, not just about what they do. Start to get to know them personally. Develop that personal relationship and as you do that I can assure you that you will find you will fail a lot less often and you will find that your opportunities continue to get bigger and bigger and your career is going to grow as a result of that." Bill Rowan is the Vice President of Federal Sales for VMware. Prior to coming to VMware, he was at EMC Corporation. He's also held leadership positions at Storage Technology (now Sun) and IBM.
Rishabh Kaul, Belong's Co Founder talks to Sarv Saravanan - Corporate Senior Vice President & General Manager, APJ Centers of Excellence at EMC Corporation on the role of GICs in India, leadership transformation, digital transformation and what they can learn from startups
On this week's show, The Wise Investor Group discussed market environment and how the late nineties Asian crisis looks similar. Additionally, they discussed Walt Disney Company and EMC Corporation. Join The Wise Investor Group each week as they provide current market commentary and delve into timely investment topics.
Nick takes a look at the very recent case of Petter v EMC Corporation and what this means for international employers. To follow Nick on Twitter, please go to Nicholas Robertson@NicholasRober11 to receive links to all the cases mentioned.
After years of very little change, the energy efficiency industry is getting a makeover. The growth in connected, learning devices -- and the data access enabled by them -- is creating a new paradigm that many call "intelligent efficiency." In this podcast, we're live from ACEEE's Intelligent Efficiency conference. We'll talk with Ben Bixby, the director of energy products at Nest, and Kathrin Winkler, the chief sustainability officer of EMC Corporation, about what the shift means for consumers, energy efficiency companies and utilities. This podcast is brought to you by SMA, the world's leading solar inverter manufacturer. With more than 850 service experts, 90 service hubs, 30-plus gigawatts installed globally and thousands of commercial and utility projects completed worldwide, SMA is the partner of choice for your PV projects. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussion between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Media Editor Stephen Lacey.
As the economy twists and turns with more layoffs mounting – having a strong personal brand is becoming ever more important from a career perspective. But what does that mean? Do you launch a blog? Do you start a Twitter account? Do you launch your own Vlog? Or maybe some combination of all of the above. To get some more clarity on this I interviewed Dan Schawbel the author of the Personal Branding blog. He will also be releasing a new book called Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (due out with Kaplan in April 09). In my opinion, Dan is also the hardest working guy in Social Media posting 10 times a week on his blog, publishing his own magazine and book as well as having a full time job as the social media expert for EMC! How to create your own Personal Brand? About Dan Dan Schawbel is the leading personal branding expert for Gen-Y. He is the author of “Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 2009).” Presently, Dan is a Social Media Specialist at EMC Corporation, which is one of the leading technology companies in the world. He has helped revolutionize the way EMC communicates and collaborates with all stakeholders. He has spearheaded the company's Twitter, Facebook, social media press release/newsroom, social bookmarking and blogging strategy in the past year. Dan has introduced a whole new generation to personal branding, as he opens up new opportunities and strives to elevate the practice. His Personal Branding Blog is consistently ranked in the top 70 marketing blogs in the world by AdAge, and has achieved syndication from Forbes, Reuters and Hoovers. Dan publishes Personal Branding Magazine, is the head judge for the Personal Brand Awards and directs Personal Branding TV. He has written articles in major magazines and online resources such as BrandWeek Magazine, PRWeek, About.com, Web Worker Daily, T & D Magazine, Small Business Opportunities Magazine, MarketingProfs, Advertising Age, TheLadders.com and The American Marketing Association. He is a frequent media commentator, cited in such outlets as Fast Company, ABC News, Boston Globe, Monster.com, Young Money Magazine, BNET, ReadWriteWeb, Providence Business News, Marketing News, Brand Strategy Magazine (UK) and Yahoo! Finance. The post How to create your own Personal Brand? first appeared on Marketing Darwinism.
As the economy twists and turns with more layoffs mounting – having a strong personal brand is becoming ever more important from a career perspective. But what does that mean? Do you launch a blog? Do you start a Twitter account? Do you launch your own Vlog? Or maybe some combination of all of the above. To get some more clarity on this I interviewed Dan Schawbel the author of the Personal Branding blog. He will also be releasing a new book called Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (due out with Kaplan in April 09). In my opinion, Dan is also the hardest working guy in Social Media posting 10 times a week on his blog, publishing his own magazine and book as well as having a full time job as the social media expert for EMC! How to create your own Personal Brand? About Dan Dan Schawbel is the leading personal branding expert for Gen-Y. He is the author of “Me 2.0: Build a Powerful Brand to Achieve Career Success (Kaplan, April 2009).” Presently, Dan is a Social Media Specialist at EMC Corporation, which is one of the leading technology companies in the world. He has helped revolutionize the way EMC communicates and collaborates with all stakeholders. He has spearheaded the company’s Twitter, Facebook, social media press release/newsroom, social bookmarking and blogging strategy in the past year. Dan has introduced a whole new generation to personal branding, as he opens up new opportunities and strives to elevate the practice. His Personal Branding Blog is consistently ranked in the top 70 marketing blogs in the world by AdAge, and has achieved syndication from Forbes, Reuters and Hoovers. Dan publishes Personal Branding Magazine, is the head judge for the Personal Brand Awards and directs Personal Branding TV. He has written articles in major magazines and online resources such as BrandWeek Magazine, PRWeek, About.com, Web Worker Daily, T & D Magazine, Small Business Opportunities Magazine, MarketingProfs, Advertising Age, TheLadders.com and The American Marketing Association. He is a frequent media commentator, cited in such outlets as Fast Company, ABC News, Boston Globe, Monster.com, Young Money Magazine, BNET, ReadWriteWeb, Providence Business News, Marketing News, Brand Strategy Magazine (UK) and Yahoo! Finance.