ALEX SHARPE – HELPING BUSINESSES GROW BY LEVERAGING A VAST EXPERIENCE IN CYBERSECURITY AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Business growth in the digital age is not as easy as it was a couple of decades ago, but the current age has provided many opportunities. Businesses that can understand the need to grasp newer technology and adapt unique innovations can achieve the success they seek. The term digital transformation gets used a lot to open doors, but the idea is as profound as any other important aspect of a business. In fact, digital transformation is an idea as old as the introduction of digital technology in its early days. The businesses that grasped the profundity of the idea early on were able to gain massive success and are currently the market leaders. Businesses that appeared on the scene much later and adapted to digital transformation were also able to gain an edge compared to businesses that stuck to the old ways of operating. The idea is an important aspect of operating a business in the current digital era that businesses can’t imagine gaining a semblance of success without being digitally transformed. In fact, there is no other way to be successful if a business decides to compete with other businesses today. If a business is not equipped with digital technology today, it can never be able to attain success in the current situation. The recent years’ experiences have made it quite clear that only the businesses that were already equipped with digital technology were able to survive the era of uncertainty and the tumultuousness of recent times.
But as businesses have been progressing and prospering in the digital landscape, the issue of data security has also become more pressing than ever before. When businesses adopt digital transformation, their sensitive data ends up in digital storage to make operating business in the digital world easier. But that also means the data is accessible to people who should not have access to it. The earlier time of the rise of digital transformation was utter chaos as determined individual black hat hackers, and shady collectives of hackers found ways to penetrate the early forms of digital protection quite easily. As digital has become a business imperative, cyber hygiene has become a Broad Discussion. With time and experience, cybersecurity consultants learned more than just technical controls are required. Today experienced cybersecurity professionals leverage their valuable experience in cybersecurity and digital transformation to help businesses grow. One such individual who helps businesses today is the founder of Sharpe Management Consulting LLC, Mr. Alex Sharpe.
Today, Mr. Alex Sharpe is a pioneer and thought leader in cybersecurity, digital transformation, and risk management.
Mr. Sharpe has more than thirty-plus years of experience in privacy and cybersecurity with factual operational experience that has enabled him to build and lead businesses, unlike most cyber professionals. Mr. Sharpe is one of the very few individuals equipped with strong business acumen and astute cybersecurity skills.
Mr. Sharpe was born in Nutley, a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. He is a notable business leader with prestigious and profound cybersecurity and risk management experience. He is the founder of Sharpe Management Consulting LLC, which provides services to businesses in Cybersecurity, Digital Transformation, Complex Program Management, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Additionally, the experience and expertise that Mr. Sharpe has earned throughout his time in the business enable Sharpe Management Consulting LLC to help businesses embrace innovation, boost productivity, automate processes, launch new services, and enter new markets.
He has delivered to clients in almost thirty countries around the globe, except for Antarctica. Throughout his career, Mr. Sharpe has enabled both government agencies and corporations alike to reap the rewards afforded by technology while managing their cyber risk. The profound real-world experience provides Mr. Sharpe with an in-depth grasp of the balance between cybersecurity, operational effectiveness, and business realities.
Mr. Sharpe is a member of the board of BWG Strategy. He is also a guest lecturer and speaker that apprises the industry leaders of the challenges of the digital world. Mr. Sharpe attended the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), earning his BSEE concentrating in Computer Engineering with minors in Math and Computer Science in 1986. He received his Master’s from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in 1995 in Operations Management, Systems Engineering, and Program/Project Management. Sharpe’s profound experience and talent won him two merit awards from the Columbia Business School in 2018.
Mr. Sharpe has contributed to several National and International efforts, including changes to regulatory environments for Crypto Currency and Digital Assets, the development of the Operational Resilience Framework (ORF), the U.S. adoption of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), and the development of frameworks for Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP)/ Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) for the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA).
Mr. Sharpe began his professional career at the National Security Agency (NSA) in 1986. He moved into the management consulting ranks, where he built practices at Booz Allen and KPMG. After gaining an extensive experience in business strategy and corporate governance, Sharpe co-founded two firms of his own, including the Hackett Group, where he ran the eBusiness P&L for the firm, and eForce as the Vice President of Global Operations. He subsequently ventured out on his own by advising boards and senior executive on cyber risk, complex program management, business strategy, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Throughout his career, Mr. Sharpe continues regularly to work with regulators, industry bodies, and standards organizations like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), InfraGard, ISACA, Global Resilience Federation (GRF), the Global Digital Currency and Asset Association (Global DCA), the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), NIST and ISO.
