This week we continue to explore Security and Virtual CISO, with special guest Michael Marlowe, Vice President of Chasetek. Transcript below is auto-generated, some errors may be present. Josh Lupresto:
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:
Hey everybody, welcome back. I'm your host, Josh Lupresto, SVP of Sales Engineering at Telarus. And this is the Next Level BizTech podcast. So we are getting closer to wrapping up the security track, and we are talking today, security and virtual CISO, Chief Info Security Officer. So if you tuned in earlier, you heard from the Telarus side, you heard Jeff Hathcote, our chief security architect, talking about all the things that Telarus is doing with regard to security. And then you heard from one of our suppliers, you heard from IGI and Paul over there. Today though, today we get the fun part. Today we get to be joined by the one, the only Michael Marlowe of Chasetek and talking about his view on security and everything that encompasses that. Michael, thanks so much for being on, my man.
Michael Marlowe:
Thanks for having me.
Josh Lupresto:
Let's let's jump right in. You know, part of my favorite you know, piece of these things is, is hearing about everybody's history. How did we all get here? We've had some people that have known and been destined that this is what they're gonna do. And then some people that have done everything crazy from car mechanics to I've been in door to door vacuum sales and everything in between. So, I would love to hear personally about you. How'd you start? What was your path? And then wanna learn a little bit about Chasetek?
Michael Marlowe:
Great, thanks. Yeah, well, the first thing you should know is it's 5 0 1 on a Friday and a holiday weekend heading into Labor Day. So you gotta know that we have love of career and love for Telarus here at Chasetek, just by that staff. So I'm really started my inspiration to do what I do really started with reading a book one up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch. The guy that created Fidelity Magellan, the kind of original huge mutual fund. And the reason it I go back there is that inspired me to become a, a broker, which I am today. So it was a different track. It was the Merrill Lynch Morgan Stanley track, but that got me into that career. And you know, it started with cold calling at Merrill and that morphed into developing a satellite office in Circleville, Ohio.
Michael Marlowe:
And which the home of the Great Pumpkin Show every year for those who don't know and kind of following around their 401k plan, helping people retire. And that I, we made the move into Morgan Stanley as technology IPOs started happening. This is the late nineties now. And heading into the 2000 you know, kind of tech bubble. And around that time, I did that for eight years combined. And at the end of that tenure you know, helping people who had successful business careers and and lives the one common denominator that I noticed was that the people that were happiest were folks that were in control of what they were doing at work. That they were always themselves. So whether they were, you know, CEOs or doctors or whatever attorneys the big thing was that they were empowered to always be themselves.
Michael Marlowe:
And I felt at the end of that, that it was time for me to be one of them. So I went and started doing my own thing. We had a tech startup and had a few of 'em that I was a part of got involved in the innovation community and had a couple exits along the way. And getting to, I think it was 2014, 15 I did some innovation work for government in central Ohio, did an innovation study for the city of Columbus that they helped use to figure out where the city and should make investments in startups.