Marcos Marrero Email Address

Global Director of Information Security

H.I.G. Capital is a leading global private investment firm with $19 billion of capital currently under management.* H.I.G.'s family of funds includes private equity, real estate, growth equity and debt/credit. H.I.G. Capital has invested in and controlled over 200 organizations globally since it was founded more than 20 years ago. The firm currently manages a portfolio of companies with combined sales in excess of $30 billion. H.I.G. is based in Miami, with offices in New York, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Atlanta in the U.S., and affiliate offices in London, Hamburg, Madrid, Milan and Paris in Europe as well as Rio de Janeiro in South America.. H.I.G. focuses on providing capital to small and mid-sized businesses with attractive growth potential. The firm invests in management-led buyouts and recapitalizations of well-managed and profitable manufacturing and service businesses. H.I.G. Capital also has extensive experience with operational turnarounds and financial restructurings. The firm has a proven strategy built around; (1) a flexible investment approach which emphasizes speed as well as responsiveness; (2) a large team with unique skills and capabilities, as well as a "can-do" approach; (3) a long-standing focus on small and medium sized businesses typically from $50-500 million in value, as well as an understanding of the challenges and opportunities these business present. * Based on total capital commitments to funds managed by H.I.G. Capital and its affiliates. Specialties: private equity, growth equity, debt/credit, real estate and public equities

Marcos Marrero is a Technology Risk & Information Security professional with 20+ years of experience establishing and managing Technology Risk & Information Security programs. He started his career in Information Security with Lloyds Banking Group in North America, where he assisted the company's first Chief Information Security Officer in establishing and was later responsible for managing LBG’s first Technology Risk & Information Security program. After several years at LBG, he moved on to the Legal industry to implement an Information Security Program for the international law firm GreenbergTraurig. While at GT, he realized the unmet need within the Legal Industry for Information Security Programs. Once he completed the implementation at GT, he took the opportunity to assist GreenspoonMarder with establishing a Technology Risk & Information Security Program. After GreenspoonMarder, Mr. Marrero moved on to Itaú International, the private banking arm of Itaú Unibanco, serving as the company's VP & Information Security Officer and responsible for the organization's Caribbean, South American, and Florida Information Security Programs. He is the Chief Information Security Officer for H.I.G. Capital, a multi-national private equity firm with over $50bn in AUM.