Lunch with Carlos Jiménez
Published on April 9, 2008
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The Fundación Rafael del Pino Scholars Association and the MIT Alumni Association in Spain organized a joint lunch with Mr. Carlos Jiménez. Mr. Jiménez programmed the first antivirus software 19 years ago, is co-founder of Anyware, and founder and president of Secuware (see complete profile below).
The lunch took place on April 8th, in the presidential dining room at the Fundación Rafel del Pino. Mr. Carlos Jiménez shared his vital and entrepreneurial experience with a group of scholars of the Foundations Rafel del Pino, La Caixa, Fulbright, March, Caja Madrid, Ramón Areces, and Barriè de la Maza. Also a group of MIT, Stanford University, LBS, Wharton, Columbia, and University of Chicago alumni were present.
CARLOS JIMÉNEZ PROFILE
Carlos Jiménez, 41, is the only School of Telecommunication Engineering graduate who simultaneously carried five majors during his university studies. He was the creator of the first computer antivirus in 1989.
In 1989 he founded Anyware Seguridad Informática S.A., the first Spanish R+D+i computer security company. Its subsidiary in California (Anyware Software Corporation) manufactured the second antivirus solution most downloaded from the Internet between 1995 and 1998. In 1998 he sold Anyware to McAfee (an American multinational corporation) for 11 million euros, which he used to finance his second project: Secuware.
In 1998 he was approached by the CNI (the Spanish Military Intelligence Service) regarding the need to protect Government computers, particularly those at the Ministries of Defence and the Interior. From Secuware, Jiménez created Crypt2000, the encryption product that is currently used by the Tax Authorities and various Ministries to protect the information stored in their computers, as well as by many of the foremost Spanish companies both in the public and private sectors: Telefónica, Iberdrola, the Spanish Mint, the Bank of Spain, etc.
A regular collaborator with the media, Jiménez has appeared on numerous occasions on news programmes (TVE, A3TV, Tele5, Canal +, TM) and in the printed press (El País, El Mundo, ABC) to comment on computer security incidents. He has taught classes at various universities in Spain (UPM, UPV, Autónoma de Madrid…) and abroad (Paris, Milan, UCLA and Berkeley in the US). He is a weekly participant in Radio Intereconomía’s programme entitled “Internet Professionals”.
He acts as Vice-President of the “Club de Amigos de la Sociedad de la Información” (Friends of the Information Society) presided by Crisanto Plaza, where he shares his vision with the Chairmen and CEO’s of the leading companies in the country.
Member of the Committee of Experts at the Ministry of Science and Technology, he participated in drawing up the 2004-2007 R+D+i Plan regarding “Strategic action for security and trust in the national electronics, computer and Information society plans”.
He participated as a guest consultant in the NATO conference on Terrorism held by the Directors General of Armament and Weapons. His contributions have also encompassed participation in projects such as decoding the Human Genome, the generation of random numbers by software and digital content management, amongst others.
Carlos Jiménez is a blend of entrepreneur and communicator, although he prefers to define himself simply as a technician who is easy to understand. He is considered an authority on computer, PC and network security, and one of the top ten experts worldwide in computer virus and cyber-terrorism.
