DeNexus expands European offering with senior hire

DeNexus, a provider of cyber risk modelling for global re/insurers and insurance linked securities (ILS) investors, has expanded its European offering with a senior hire in Switzerland, where it aims to create a new hub of cyber.

DeNexus has hired sales and engineering security specialist Víctor Manuel Aguilar Gutiérrez (Pictured) as part of its strategy to increase the reach of its cyber risk quantification and management tools in the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa).

Manuel Aguilar Gutiérrez has 15 years of experience in sales and engineering security having worked for large industrial corporations. Most recently, he was regional director, Iberia & Turkey at Nozomi Networks in the Ticino region of southern Switzerland for the last two years, after having joined the firm in 2018 as sales engineer. Prior to that, he was security consulting engineer for EMEA at Cisco Systems.

In his remit as VP of Sales (EMEA), he is tasked with extending DeNexus’ value proposition in the cyber risk quantification and management sphere to the UK, Europe, Middle East and Africa. DeNexus opened its Lugano office in July this year with the aim of creating a new hub of cyber knowledge in Switzerland. The firm also recently opened an office in London as part of its strategy to build out its cyber expertise in Europe.

DeNexus founder & CEO Jose Seara said: “We are very excited to welcome Víctor to the DeNexus team. With his appointment, we are marking a further step on our geographical growth path. By leveraging Víctor’s expertise and network of contacts, we look forward to empowering more industrial enterprises and risk underwriters in EMEA to quantify and manage cyber risk exposure on a continuous, self-adaptive basis.”

Manuel Aguilar Gutiérrez said: “I am thrilled to join the ambitious, forward-thinking team at DeNexus. In my capacity as VP of Sales (EMEA), I am looking forward to being part of a larger mission to build the global standard of industrial cyber risk quantification for insurance agencies, shareholders, investors and boards.”

This news follows an intense period of activity for DeNexus. In October, it launched DeRISK 5.0 Platform, an updated version of its evidence-based, data-driven cyber risk quantification and management tool that aims to help risk owners (industrial organizations, underwriters, reinsurers, and ILS investors) better understand, mitigate, and transfer the risks associated with cyber breaches.

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