Chris Romeo: How A Cybersecurity Professional Broke Out As An Entrepreneur
- S3E6
- 53:37
- October 18th 2022
In this episode of Exit Stories, Chris Romeo, the co-founder and former CEO of Security Journey, joins our host Kevin Mosley. Romeo is a lifelong cybersecurity professional who embarked on an entrepreneurial path. At Cisco, he developed the company’s security training program, the Cisco Security Ninja. It aimed to teach developers and engineers the basics of cybersecurity and secure coding. The high demand for such a program outside of Cisco led Romeo to resign in 2016, and launch the cloud-based platform Security Journey, which teaches developers how to improve security in their own companies. Earlier this year, Pittsburgh’s HackEDU acquired the company. Romeo shares the ‘Security Journey’ and what lies ahead in this episode.
Exit Stories
Exit Stories features tech founders, buyers, and sellers from the Triangle, North Carolina and the Southeast to tell their stories about raising capital and selling their startups.
This program is produced by GrepBeat and hosted by Kevin Mosley of Jurassic Capital.
Meet the Host
Kevin is a General Partner at Jurassic Capital, a Durham, NC-based Growth Equity firm focused on growing B2B software companies in the Southeast. Alongside cofounder Joe Colopy, Jurassic’s deep entrepreneurial and operating experience from Bronto and other SaaS companies helps grow and scale capital-efficient companies over $1M in Revenue. They recently closed a $20M+ fund and have portfolio companies building software in HR (Workdove), B2B eCommerce (Corevist), and Test Automation (Cycle Labs).
Kevin spent his pre-Jurassic career operating at growth-stage software companies, including Sageworks, Lulu, Bronto, and Republic Wireless/Relay. He graduated with a BS in Finance from Clemson and loves spending time with his wife in the Triangle as well as watching and playing all sports, especially golf and tennis.