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Becoming a CEO with Pencil Data's Val Bercovicci

Jan 13, 2020

 

 

Val Bercovici is the Founder & CEO of PencilDATA. He describes PencilDATA as a lie detector for data, but from a broader perspective, it’s a company that offers cybersecurity software that seeks to detect and prevent cyber breaches. Val has extensive experience working in executive positions as well as hands-on experience with cloud storage and data management innovations, Big Data, and storage architecture.

 

Val joins me today to share what it’s like being a CEO, the challenges he faced along the way, and the cybersecurity capabilities of PencilDATA. He discusses his professional journey, the companies he’s worked with, and the problems he saw regarding data security that led to the development of PencilDATA. He explains how to choose a role model, what leaders can do to humanize their employees, and why there’s no such thing as a work-life balance. Val also describes what he loves about being a CEO as well as the aspects he doesn’t like about it.

 

 

 

“You have to have the confidence to just go ahead and do it.” - Val Bercovici

 

 

 

Today on Mastering Midlife:

 

  • Val's life and upbringing before he became a CEO.
  • The importance of keeping perspective in your life.
  • Aspects of his life that forced him to shift gears in his career.
  • His thoughts on the concept of work-life balance.
  • Recognizing the human side of your employees.
  • The fears he had to conquer when wearing the hat of a CEO.
  • His advice when choosing role models and the standards you set for yourself.
  • What his company does and the products they offer to customers.
  • What is the cyberwar that they're trying to help fight?
  • What he loves about being a CEO and what he doesn't love.

 

 

Val Bercovici’s Words of Wisdom:

 

  • You can humanize your staff even with the smallest things, like not setting seminars during the weekend.
  • Fabricated data can be detrimental to a company’s marketing strategy.
  • You can’t truly have a work-life balance.

 

 

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