Technophile CEO's Revamping the Tech October 2020

Technophile
CEO's
Revamping the
Tech
TARIQUE
MUSTAFA
Taking Security
as a Responsibility
10 10
Tech Insight
Changing Leadership
With Technological
Advancements
Moving Towards
Digital Transformation
Digital Solutions For
"The New Normal”

Today’s Tech Titans
It’s no secret that being a tech CEO is not an easy role to
perform. It requires create the overall vision of the
organization, hiring capable people and ensuring there’s
always financial stability maintained. However without
certain mentioned traits, it would be tough to run
businesses and lead it to success. Below are the four
characteristics which have been seen in the most
effective tech CEOs in the industry and should be
followed by emerging business leaders.
Ÿ Leading with Strategy
Organisations, especially start-ups, are very vulnerable
and need a range and depth of knowledge and strategy to
be effectively managed: this can be happened with a
clear vision and analysis.
Ÿ Creating Friendly and Supportive Work Culture
Today’s business leaders, especially during the early
phases of an organization, need to help build culture
from the base. It includes getting involved with
employee and team members’ activities, organising
office events and making sure to get to know everyone.
Knowing employees at individual level will strengthen
the organization culture and helping in retain and nurture
talent.
Ÿ Hiring the Right People
In process of scaling a business, it is important to hire
the people who show up with the right skill sets. Also,
identify the difference between the right people and the
right people for at the moment. To build a successful
business that lasts, one needs to think about what type of
people the company needs in five or 10 years, and not for
just a short period or the next board meeting.
Ÿ Empowering the Team to make Decisions
Mostly in the tech ecosystem, there are many talented
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people with different ideas and opinions. A good
CEO knows how to vest team members to make the
final decision. That shows establishing ownership,
and trust and making sure that everyone understands
their role.
Insights Success understands such leaders’ journey
and values their wholesome contribution to their
respective sectors. In its special tech leader’s
edition, “Technophile CEO's Revamping the Tech”
Insights Success celebrates the success of these tech
leaders and presenting their story to the world. This
issue focuses on some best performing tech CEOs
out there who have made a significant mark in the
industry.
The cover features Tarique Mustafa, Founder and
CEO at GhangorCloud, Inc., a Cybersecurity expert
with demonstrated extraordinary innovative abilities
in the areas of information security. As an
experienced Cybersecurity business leader, he
believes professional integrity and excellence are
the most important values. Especially in a crucial
domain such as Cyber Security which is inherently
fraught with known and unknown vulnerabilities,
utmost vigilance and honesty are quintessential.
Let’s unveil such alike, inspiring stories and
interviews of many such passionate leaders in this
special edition and spread a word about their
contribution in making this world a better place.
Also, while flipping the pages, don’t forget to go
through the articles and CXOs written by our in-
house editorial team and industry experts
respectively.

Moving Towards
Digital Transformation
Digital Solutions For
"The New Normal”
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Cover Story
Tarique Mustafa
Taking Security as a
Responsibility
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Tech Insight
Changing Leadership
With Technological
Advancements
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Article
CXO

CONENTS
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20
Leticia Latino van Splunteren
Leading by Example
16
Paul Ford
A Decisive Leader in
Financial Service Industry
34
Max Gulde
An Avid Technologist with
a Profound Vision
Nicolas Genest
Success through Teaching
and Empowerment

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TARIQUE
Mustafa
Taking Security as a
Responsibility
“Cyber Insecurity poses existential
crisis and must be addressed
holistically from the ground up – that
will require a paradigm shift based
on Classical AI and System
Theoretic Design.”
Technophile CEO’s Revamping the Tech

Being the highest-ranking individual in an
organization and responsible for the overall
success and activity of a business is not an easy
role to play. Meet Tarique Mustafa, Founder
and CEO at GhangorCloud, Inc., a
Cybersecurity expert with demonstrated
extraordinary innovative abilities in the areas of
information security.
As an experienced Cybersecurity business leader,
he believes professional integrity and excellence
are the most important values. Especially in a
crucial domain such as Cyber Security which is
inherently fraught with known and unknown
vulnerabilities, utmost vigilance and honesty are
quintessential. He further adds partial or in-
effective solutions must not be peddled as a
panacea. Too many less than effective solutions
have already flooded the industry and that has in
turn damaged the confidence of the security
practitioners.
Below are the highlights of the interview
conducted between Insights Success and Tarique
Mustafa:
Kindly take us through your journey on
becoming a cybersecurity expert.
I started my professional career after graduating
from the University of Southern California where
I was a Rotary International Scholar in
Engineering and Computer Science. My first job
was with Symantec Corporation in the world
headquarters Silicon Valley California, where I
was in a lead position spearheading product
lines. This experience laid down the foundation
for my career in Cyber Security. Over the last 25
years, I have had the opportunity of working in
leadership roles where I built Cyber Security
systems and products from the ground up,
several of those products have won industry
recognition as the leading Cyber Security
products. During the course of my career, I have
invented several key patents and algorithms
which are recognized as significant breakthrough
technologies in Artificial Intelligence and Cyber
th
Security. GhangorCloud’s 4 Generation Data

Leak and Exfiltration Prevention (DLEP) Cyber Security
Paradigm is based on my vision of the future as Cyber
Warfare keeps evolving into a more and more
sophisticated challenge. This is now recognized by the
industry analysts as a “paradigm shift” from the way
Data Security products have been traditionally built.
How comprehensive is GhangorCloud’s cyber
incident response plan? How often is it tested?
GhangorCloud’s solution called ISE (information
th
Security Enforcer) is the pioneering 4 Generation Cyber
Security solution that provides robust defence against
Data Leak and Exfiltration Attacks in real-time. It is
recognized in the industry as the “Gold Standard”
solution in this category. It embodies the full spectrum
“Real-time Detect, Disable and Destroy” capability
against the Insider and Outsider Exfiltration Attacks. It
incorporates cutting edge technological breakthroughs in
Artificial Intelligence and System Theoretic Design
Principles that enable Auto-Identification and
Classification of Data/Information Objects, Auto-Access
Control, Auto-Policy Synthesis and Auto-GRC
enforcement with little to no human intervention. It is

built from the ground up to thwart any Evasion Attacks
that may be Zero-day or Zero-second.
What solutions are best to help mitigate the
cybersecurity risks?
Cyber Warfare is becoming increasingly more
challenging for the “defenders” as the Cyber Attacks
increase in sophistication, speed, and stealth. Cyber
Attacks are now employing advanced technologies such
as Artificial Intelligence and Military Style Stealth. In
order to effectively address these Cyber Threats an
overhaul of the Cyber Defence Strategy and the
underlying technologies is imperative. The traditional
approach of “Patch-work” (or what was the “Plugging of
the Dyke”) that the Cyber Security industry has
traditionally employed has caused nothing but more
trouble. The Cyber Defence Systems must go through a
paradigm shift from the ground up. Artificial Intelligence
and System Theoretic Design principles will play crucial
roles in defining and delivering the Cyber Defence
Systems that can measure up to future challenges in
Cyber Security.
How do you achieve work-life balance?
Being the “one of a kind” epicenter for Hi-tech industry,
Silicon Valley is the gravitational center for the crème de
la crème of Hi-tech professionals. As such it has its own
culture and life-style. Hi-tech professionals in Silicon
Valley usually have the stereotype of being very work-
focused. I must confess that I am the epitome of this
stereotype. To me my work is my life and I enjoy every
moment of it. The thrill and excitement of creating truly
“cutting, bleeding-edge technology” is the aphrodisiac
like none other!! I do have a couple of interesting
hobbies to keep me sane – amateur competitive ballroom
dancing is my favorite hobby that gives me the
opportunity to keep physically active and emotionally
creative. It is a great “art form” and a highly competitive
sport.
What is the primal challenges cybersecurity industry
is facing today?
The primal challenges are (1) very high calibre Cyber-
enemy who is determined and motivated to defeat Cyber
Defences and inflict heavy losses on their target, (2)
Unprepared and untrained users of Cyberspace who lack

awareness of Cyberthreat or do not take it seriously, (3)
Less than effective Cyber Defence mechanisms that
often create more issues than they address.
When the primordial Internet was invented the pioneers
were not thinking about security. Their spirit was more
focused and driven by the “principles of
Democratization”. The Internet evolved into Web, and
then into Cyberspace security became increasingly more
serious a challenge. Unfortunately, by then the mould of
Internet’s foundational architecture was already cast and
innumerable services were already built and deployed on
top of it at the Web layer, without adequate security
provisions. This resulted in the desperate frenzy a-
posteriori to address the Cybersecurity issues.
Consequently, a plethora of less-than-effective security
solutions emerged, many of which were half-baked and
retrofit at the best. This further culminated into the
“Patchwork culture” where the only resort was to deploy
a never-ending cycle of “Patches” to obviate newer type
and mechanisms of Cyberattacks. In order to effectively
address Cybersecurity some foundational corrections and
improvements must be made from ground up. Anything
less than such a forklift upgrade of the Internet and Web
will be in futility if addressing the Cybersecurity
challenge holistically is in fact the sincere objective.
How necessary is to provide adequate education
about the cybersecurity threats to employees
nowadays?
As mentioned already, educating the workforce and
employees about the Cyber Security threats is one of the
most crucial requirements in order to be able to mitigate
the vulnerability of Cyberspace. Many of the security
incidents in Cyberspace can be directly attributed to
human error or negligence. Through proper training and
awareness many of the Cyber Security Incidents can be
averted.
What are your future endeavors/objectives and where
do you see yourself and the industry in the near
future?
My objective is to address the Cyber Security challenge
effectively and create new technologies that in fact
address this lingering perpetual problem. I believe that
Cyber Security can be addressed holistically through an
intricate interplay of Deep Artificial Intelligence and
System Theoretic Design principles.
At GhangorCloud, we strive to build Cyber Security
solutions that address the Data Leak and Exfiltration
Cyber Attacks in a holistic and conclusive fashion. Our
ISE (Information Security Enforcer) product is built
incorporating key technological breakthroughs (patented
and patent pending) in the areas of Artificial Intelligence
and System Theoretic principles. Our product is
recognized in the industry as the “Best of the Breed”
solution in the DLEP category. We are constantly
creating newer and better enabling technologies that will
be incorporated in the future versions of our products.
What advice would you like to give to the emerging
tech leaders?
Unfortunately, like other fields, the Cyber Security
industry has also suffered due to the unconscientious and
less than appropriate conduct – a manifestation of brazen
greed and commercialization. My foremost advice to the
emerging tech leaders would be “follow your dream of
delivering better technology and solutions as long as it is
not led by greed … , Don’t oversell half-baked solutions
and don’t peddle snake oil under the guise of panacea.
Cyber Security is a hard problem and requires out-of-
the-box thinking. Search for the right solution even if it
requires a paradigm shift.”

Leticia
Latino van Splunteren
n an interview with Insights Success Leticia Latino
Ivan – Splunteren shares about her jouney and her
contribution as a CEO through Neptuno USA, Corp.
Leticia is a recipient of the 2018 Women in IoT award by
ConnectedMagazine and has been featured as one of the
prominent women in Telecom by TowerXchange, the
Wireless Industry Association, NATE and AGL magazine.
Besides, she also plays a role of an active member for the
SmartCity Council TaskForce, WIA City Networks Task
Force and was recently appointed to the FCC Broadband
Advisory Committee. She is a mentor with the National
Association of Tower Erectors (NATE) where she helps
young women that want to start a career in Telecom.
Neptuno, her company, was also a finalist in the 2019
WeInnovate! Program promoted by WBENCCertified
Women's Business Enterprises (WBEs) to showcase their
company's expertise in areas of innovation that are critical
to WBENC's Corporate Members. In addition, Leticia is a
big advocate of nurturing “Human Connections” through
her Back2Basics Podcast and through the
#Time2Reconnect movement, which she created.
Below are highlights of the interview between Leticia
Latino-van Splunteren and Insights Success:
Kindly elaborate your journey in becoming the business
leader.
I am a believer that Leadership comes in our DNA, we
obviously grow into it during our leadership journey, but
the chip has to be there somewhere. From a very young age
I was usually trying to lead something, call it the student
movement, a fundraiser or a group vacation. As I started my
professional career, that was no exception, I was always
looking for opportunities to lead an initiative and usually it
involved creating something from scratch, that's what I
enjoy the most. After several years in Merrill Lynch and
then at Nortel Networks, I decided to join the family
business which my father founded in 1972. It wasn't until
the early 2000's that I felt the timing was right to capitalize
on the experience I had gained and that I realized Neptuno
was a great platform to do just that.
How do you diversify your organization's offerings to
appeal the target audience?
We had always been very Latin America focus because our
largest factory is in Venezuela. Unfortunately, the political
situation that the country has been into for the past two
decades, have called for a change of focus, both in terms of
market and offering. They say that you can have good
things as a result of a bad situation, and in our case is true.
We were prompted by circumstances to re-invent ourselves
as a company. We went from an engineering and steel
manufacturing company, to a technology company. We
made it our priority to implement technological advances in
our industry, and we now have added services such as 3D
Reality Capture Site Surveys, IoT Asset Tracking and Smart
City related infrastructure to our portfolio. We also started
to get involved in artifical intelligence.
What attributes are required to sustain in the cutting-
edge competition?
In my opinion Curiosity to never stop exploring,
humbleness to never believe that what you have is the best,
genuine relationships and Integrity to ensure the Industry's
trust.
What are your intakes on roles of a leader with regards
to achieve success?
I know it sounds cliché, but I think Leading by Example is
Leading by Example
“
Success is inevitable, just show
up and do the work.
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what ensures success. I believe in inspiring by
actions rather than words because unfortunately
among the many good things that the digital era
has brought, it has also brought a lot of
unverified information and companies and
people portraying to be things that they are not.
Social Media personas can be misleading, so I
personally take what I read with a grain of salt,
I am more attuned with getting to know the
person, or even asking about them to get a
sense of how the person is perceived by others.
I think a true leader has its reputation as its
greatest asset.
How do you strategize your game plans to
tackle the competition in the market?
I usually worry more about what WE are doing
than about what others are doing. I think is
disrespectful to the customer to fill their heads
with depositioning arguments about a
competitor. I normally ask questions to address
the customer's pain points and try to
differentiate from competitors from that angle. I
just provide all the info for thorough analysis;
customers are smart enough to make the
comparison themselves.
As per your opinion, what roadblocks or
challenges are faced by leaders in a
corporate business? And what is your advice
to overcome them?
I believe that we are focusing too much in
growth, we all want to grow so much and when
I talk to sales people they usually complain that
their quotas are impossible to reach, and every
year it gets worse. We need to listen to the
market and to the customer, and understand
what's really going on, because at some point or
the other bubbles burst.
What will be your future endeavors and/or
where do you see yourself in the near future?
We are committed to become a key player in
the Smart City movement, not only as an
infrastructure provider but also to help create
citizen and community awareness about the
changes that our infrastructure has to undergo
for our cities to transition into this new era.
Leticia Latino
van -Splunteren
CEO
Neptuno USA, Corp.
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An Avid Technologist with
a Profound Vision
An experimental physicist by training, Max Gulde is the
CEO and Co-founder of ConstellR, a joint spin-off
from German Fraunhofer and the German Aerospace
Center that will answer the increasing need for Land
Surface Temperature data as well as drastically improve
humankind’s capability to timely act on emerging
environmental challenges. Max has worked in different
fields and converged towards a mix of particle optics,
nanotechnology, and polymer physics.
How it all Started?
It all started with a wish to make an impact that drove
Max to work as part of a great team to push the
boundaries of how we can perceive the micro-cosmos.
While his team has certainly been very successful in the
pure scientific way in terms of high-impact publications,
Max was starting to miss the societal impact. The work
was surely of relevance at some point, nevertheless, it
was lightyears away to make it to an application.
Somewhat frustrated Max started to look for new
challenges in established as well as emerging fields,
including artificial intelligence, robotics, and space. He
was then very lucky to be offered a position as the
mission scientist for a satellite mission at Fraunhofer, as
they believed in his capability of getting the job done
without having a space-related background at all. He did
the standard astrophysics stuff at university and took one
or two lectures on cosmology, but nothing remotely
needed for mission design, payload layout, or similar
things he would be confronted with.
Not being able to confidently know what was expected
from him, he took the job. It was a very steep learning
curve but so interesting that he tried to get his hands on
as many tasks as possible, in particular those he had no
clue on how to solve. With time, Max developed
different methodologies to address the upcoming
challenges.
While he surely did re-invent the wheel a few times,
some stirred excitement in the community. More
importantly on the personal level, the sum of them
enabled him to have a good technological understanding
of different things needed for space mission design and
beyond.
What then happened was that without having a grasp of
the significance, he solved some long-known challenges
on how to increase the performance of certain
applications to make them compatible to fly on small
satellites. Only after colleagues pointed out the potential
impact, he started to understand the scope of what was
happening. This was driving him into the further
development and advancement of the idea for the next
few years.
After trying to realize the idea within a project at a
research organization, he had to come to terms with the
fact that this was not the ideal growing ground for it. So,
he approached a few friends and asked them, if they
wanted to help him commercialize the idea in the context
of a start-up. Little had he known that what he previously
had considered full commitment to the idea was nothing
against the learning curve his team had to master in the
years to come. Today, Max is far away from being at the
end of that curve but happy in striving to improve his
own proficiency.
Solving Challenges
ConstellR aims at having a product offer that will
provide with daily, global, high-resolution temperature
data, which is currently not available in the market, in an
easily accessible way. Most of its management team has
the advantage that it has been the customer of services
similar to the one it offers.
So, to a certain degree, the team has felt the pain
customers feel today and it draws an inspiration from
this. Lot of its work is not only about the product but

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also about the delivery. It has a whole list of things
which blocked it as a customer, and it will do its best to
solve all those challenges for its customers.
Essential Values
Max learned that there is no common recipe for
leadership, entrepreneurship and mentoring others, but
they in the end boil down to a mix of reasonable
understanding of one’s own and other’s capabilities and
trust. According to him, for leadership, one needs to trust
people to not do micro-management; for
entrepreneurship one needs to trust his or her idea; and
for mentoring one needs trust the self.
When asked about important values as a business leader
Max emphasized on transparency, reliability, empathy,
and responsibility.
Appointments for Self
As there are important deadlines and appointments with
clients, partners, and other business-related subjects,
Mark believes that there should be appointments for self
as well. He states, “A meeting with a business partner
should never be more important than a meeting with
your loved ones. Not showing up to an appointment with
a client should be not up for discussion the same way
doing sports, having lunch with your family, or playing
with the kids are. With work-life balance it is the same as
with entrepreneurship. It is about taking opportunities. If
you have the opportunity for a good deal, do it. If the
deal is a business-related one or simply jumping in a
lake for fun is secondary.”
Imparting Wisdom
Max keenly wishes to see the impact his team is hoping
for with its satellite constellation, as this will surely
dominate its activities in the near future. He also hopes
to see him in a position, which is best suited for
supporting this vision.
In his advice to aspiring tech leaders, Max asserts,
“Have fun in what you are doing, the rest will come.
Embrace other people’s approaches and ideas as if they
were yours. It is a marathon, so don’t try sprinting the
whole time.”
It is going to be a
rollercoaster ride -
so sit back once in a
while and enjoy it.
“
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CHANGING
LEADERSHIP
WITH
TECHNOLOGICAL
ADVANCEMENTS
Tech Insight

e are in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Wof the “Digital Age”. Technology and
Innovation are taking over in all the fields.
With upcoming technological advancements, it has
become an important part of our lives too.
The 21st century is disrupted with technological
advancements. Be it healthcare, education, or the IT
sector, technology is proving to be a game-changer. In
this article, we will take a look at how technology is
changing leadership roles in different types of sectors.
In the field of Information Technology, technology is
used to connect from lower management to top
management. Leaders can collect feedback from the
employees, conduct surveys, demand various reports,
and so on with the help of technology. It becomes
useful in understanding the employee's requirements
and bring the necessary changes. It also helps the
leader in keeping an eye on the market and knowing
what the competitors are up-to.
Educational leaders use technology to improve the
quality of education in schools and institutions. It
helps them with online learning, notes, and with
recent updates of the books. It helps students studying
abroad with online lectures and students in remote
areas to create a bridge of communication.
Healthcare leaders are not too far away from the use
of technology. Different types of machines are used to
conduct X-ray, CT-Scan, or MRIs. Healthcare leaders
use these machines to get an accurate detection of
complicated diseases. It is due to the technological
advancement in the healthcare industry that today we
can save a lot of lives, work faster, and also bring
employment to the technicians.
Leaders in the aerospace industry deals with the
highest technological processes such as building,
designing, and testing. It is because of these flights we
travel beyond the earth’s atmospheric area.
Supply chain industries are another field where leaders
use technology to keep track of their goods and
services. It helps to keep the inventory updated and
solve complicated questions like returning with the
help of sensors.
It is a telecommunication industry leader that makes
technology possible worldwide through mobile
phones, internet, cable, or wirelessly. Information can
be sent thousands of miles away through smartphones.
The leading companies in the telecommunication
industry are satellite industry, internet providers, and
wireless operators.
A country would not develop without manufacturing
goods and services. Today, manufacturing leaders use
advanced tools like machines, and robots and has
many categories to manufacture like the food industry,
petroleum industry, and so on. It provides employment
to all the people in the world.
It is clear that leaders all over the world have already
started to use technology in their businesses. They rely
on technology and innovation to increase productivity
and boost profit. Although, we think that technology is
a very important part of success, it need not be the
only thing essential to carry the business with. It
depends upon the leader if he wants to manage his
work without the use of technology and that choice of
his should be supported.
The impact is big and the results are outstanding, but
it still depends upon the leader, how he responds to
the changes that technology brings into our lives.
Technology is important but the optimal use of it will
be the real challenge for the leaders.
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As technological innovation
evolves at an accelerated pace,
yet many are striving to attain
skillful traits to function and contribute
to society to their full potential. It is
increasingly true with computer
programing and data interpretation.
Nicolas Genest, Founder and CEO of
CodeBoxx, inherently understands this
difficulty and went on to propose a
solution to the problems posed by the
changing human labor landscape.
Through his venture CodeBoxx, he
teaches individuals with many diverse
backgrounds, the tools and practices to
become first-class developers and he
offers them opportunities to gain
significant experience through series of
projects. By collaborating with many
start-ups, Nicolas and his team help
aspirants with potential find the right
position within their elite circle of
renowned enterprises.
With a keen early interest in
technology, he graduated in
Technology Management in 1999. His
journey started in Quebec City, Canada
where he embraced the early days of
emerging Business Intelligence with a
startup of his own. Later he added a
Business and Public Administration
degree in 2009 to the resume. His
career so far took him to Paris, New
York and San Francisco.
Audiences to Target
In an interview, Nicolas states that the
company adapted its training programs
so they become a suitable alternative
for three main groups of people:
Dropouts of traditional school system:
Many college/school dropouts are not
compatible with the pace and approach
of the classical school system yet they
undeniably possess a certain potential,
which could contribute significantly to
volatile technological trends. The gap
in the skills of today’s workforce
forces big corporations alongside small
startups to show greater pragmatism in
their search for valuable and capable
collaborators. CodeBoxx has become a
reliable alternative source for quality
profiles in technology, some of them
coming with a less educated
background.
Immigrants: Immigrants are the
important contributors to local
workforces and many aspire to
improve their conditions. CodeBoxx is
a four-month boot camp enabling such
individuals to get a shot at a better job
without taking on too much risk. The
supportive nature of the program in the
way it is delivered and the design of a
truly result-oriented classroom enables
focus and productivity through which
immigrants learn how to fit in, how to
build and leverage a network of peers
but, most of all, how to stand out on
the modern technology stage.
CodeBoxx has already changed the
lives of many immigrants in the
Quebec City region.
People re-orienting their career: The
Fast-paced nature of the Boot Camp
lowers the barrier to entry and enables
experienced individuals to find modern
ways to learn new skills. Some are
seeking ways to grow faster in their
existing job by offering their employer
new capabilities they can build on,
some others have an idea in mind and
lack the tools to make it a reality in a
digitally native era. In all cases,
CodeBoxx enabled many adults to re-
connect with a continuous learning
mindset and they fill their head with
new valuable sources of information
that will benefit them for the rest of
their career. Many got new jobs right
out of the program.
Portraying the Role of Forerunner
Nicolas claims that, at start, he lacked
entrepreneurial talents but he believes
that an entrepreneurial zeal emerges
when one finds a calling. He also
believes that responding to such
callings and making them a cause
moving forward is an accomplishment
in itself. Looking back on this
successful three-time CTO experience,
he strongly feels like he needed to
experience the weaknesses and
opportunities of the technology
landscape in order for him to
understand how to reshape human
capital. He is now committed to doing
the hard things as he changes the
course of one individual at a time. He
exemplifies the above statement by
quoting, “The way it is meant to be”.
To tackle various situations, Nicolas
advices that one needs to surround
oneself with the right people. An
efficient leader must promptly identify
the character traits that people possess
which will make them fit for a certain
context or task at a given moment of
the lifecycle of a business endeavor.
Nicolas Genest
Success through Teaching and Empowerment

Moreover, a leader needs to put him or her in a position
where he/she can trust by default. In other words, clearly
state the deﬁnition of success and reinforce that statement
with the pillars of a culture that will empower everyone to
aim for the company’s current, mid-term and longer-term
goals.
A Walk of Self-Evolution
Nicolas always tried throughout his career to remain on a
constant learning process and currently, he is pursuing a
Business Analytics Course with Harvard Business School.
He also mentioned that he completed his Business and
Public Administration degree while serving a full time job
at Microsoft. Another way of staying up-to-date on trends
has been through a weekly collaboration on a popular
podcast where he shares his thoughts on technology.
Thursdays come back often and the steady sustained rhythm
forces him to stay tuned to new services, new players and
new products of his landscape.
“What makes you a good overall executor is a general
awareness of what is going on everywhere within your
company coupled with a general awareness of what the best
and greatest do to solve the problems you are likely to
face,” says Nicolas.
This awareness puts him in a position where he can always
be helpful by highlighting what matters, making relevant
suggestions and save a tremendous amount of time by
putting people in charge on the right path right away.
A Glimpse into the Future of CodeBoxx
In the near future, Nicolas states that he wants to secure the
growth and footprint of CodeBoxx Technology by allowing
a greater number of people to simultaneously seize the
opportunity to start a career in technology and introduce the
best graduates to a growing number of pragmatic partners
and companies.
He also suggested that CodeBoxx Ventures was also an
important part of the endeavor for him because this branch
of the company incubates and helps jump-start ideas, which
might become the unicorns of the next decade. CodeBoxx
could also contribute to bringing back some balance to a
developer community that has become excessively elitist to
Nicolas’ taste and too much aware of its inﬂuence. He has
witnessed many times situations where, for the sake of
attaining technical purity, many entrepreneurs saw their
companies high jacked by technologists losing sight of what
the company was in it for. Through CodeBoxx, Nicolas
aspires to bring balance to such phenomenon.
“ “
Nicolas Genest
Chief Executive Officer
CodeBoxx
I will never join an endeavor
that doesn’t trigger passion
within me because I know
that passion is meant to fuel
my quest for a greater
impact over the world.
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Agood leader has the right
personality, the right set of
skills, knowledge, and an
understanding for the industry
concerns. Leaders develop vision,
inspires other people, and ultimately
provide strategy in business success.
They rise to the challenges of the
global crisis with a good combination
of teamwork, power, and appropriate
style of leadership. The reason behind
the failure of banks to meet the
requirements of the global financial
crisis was blamed on poor leadership.
During such a situation, a visionary
leader looks for the best people
available for his/her team, set
priorities, and start to deal with the
most important crisis issues as they
occur quickly.
With over 25 years of experience in
Operational and Financial services,
Paul Ford, the Founder and CEO of
Acin, is on a journey to take the
company to its utmost stature. He
completed his academic studies, BSc.
in Business Administration at the
University of Bath. Prior to creating
Acin in 2016, Paul founded Anchura
Partners in 2010 and grew it to be a
highly successful consulting business.
Previously, he was the Chief Operating
Officer of the ultra-high net worth
business at Barclays Wealth and held
various C-level positions at Credit
Suisse in Europe, Middle-East and
Africa.
Financial Crisis Leader
Financial institutions operate in a
dynamic environment and competitive
conditions. A lot has been already been
written about the causes of the global
financial crisis, about the CEO’s and
CFO’s ineffective supervision and
control in financial institutions. The
problem the company resolves can be
resumed by reference to the fact that
financial institutions have reached a
critical point. As the financial
institutions have reached a critical
point post the financial crisis in 2008,
the banks have spent billions in
building systems and hiring staff to
demonstrate that they are in control of
the operational risks within their
business. With over 25 years of
experience in financial services, Paul’s
leadership builds a culture that is
honest about the company’s present
situation, where everyone is
encouraged to use their brains to
generate the best ideas. His team
addresses issues within operational risk
which pose a threat to the health of
banks.
Lessons Learned through
Experiences
Finance involves many types of risks
market, interest rate, credit, liquidity,
financial, and operational.
Keeping an eye on the ball of
operational risk is the most basic of all
lessons Paul has underlined. Paul says,
“As an engineer by training, I was
always uncomfortable administering to
the symptoms of operational risk, I
have been determined to find the ’cure’
– in Acin we have that answer”. Prior
to entering corporate life, he enjoyed a
successful military career with the
British Army; Mr. Ford was a Captain
in the Royal Engineers. This
engineering background has continued
to shape throughout his career and how
he thinks about challenges, approaches,
and solutions.
Organizational Management
Acin’s highly advanced system of risk
identification, management, and
mitigation enable connected firms to
achieve the highest degrees of
protection at an industry level. The
Networked Defence Model is a next-
generation risk management platform.
The company has developed a
transformation approach and
methodology for operational risk
management. Paul’s core challenge for
Acin is to combine technology, data
standards, and content to measure,
manage & mitigate operational risk –
this relies on Acin’s comprehensive
data standards platform.
Strategizing the Market Competition
Acin works and is in production with
major client banks in the USA, across
Europe and in Asian firms, serving a
market size of £1.6bn per annum
revenue opportunity. In the longer-
term, Paul aims to help firms reduce

Paul Ford
Chief Executive Ofcer
Resilience,
Decisiveness and
Perseverance-the
most important
attributes.
the amount of operational risk capital needed, and to
replicate this across the industry. Acin’s ultimate goal is to
help financial institutions reduce their operational risks so
that they can be held to an industry standard and
demonstrate to regulators that they are in control of their
business. Acin has also been recognized as one of the most
innovative Regtech companies in 2019.
Achieving Success through Data Standards
Data is exploding, and more and more unstructured data is
generated – some of it useful, some of it a distraction. Data
evolves all the time, so the company is constantly engaged.
As the world’s leading company in risk and control data
standards, benchmarking and controls data analysis, Acin
enables firms to demonstrate that they are “in control” and
provide greater assurance across the industry. The
comprehensive data standards platform helps firms to
simplify and mitigate operational risk.
About Acin
Founded in 2010, Acin is the world-leading risk and control
data standards, benchmarking and controls data analysis
company. With offices in London and New York, the
organization’s clients include some of the world’s largest
financial institutions. It is specialized in risk and controls,
regulatory programs, governance, control frameworks, and
data standards, etc. The industry enables financial
institutions to access standardized controls data seamlessly,
allowing agile data-driven risk management and decision-
making. It relies on a centralized database of control
designs smart-mapped to the risks faced by each individual
business or function within the organization.
Acin sets the standard for the industry,
unlocking the full value of controls
data for its clients.
What sets Acin apart is its centralised database of control
designs smart-mapped to the risks faced by the individual
business or function within a financial institution. Data is
standardised, available, and reliable – at an industry level.
More radical still, is Acin’s ability to connect firms together
to create the industry’s first risk and control defence
network. With a dataset of risks and controls that is more
comprehensive than that of any one institution and
continuously updated via the network, this significantly
strengthens each firm’s existing “three lines of defence”.
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