Tampa tech investment firm hires cybersecurity expert

Tampa-based SCP&CO, an investment firm focused on emerging technology, named cybersecurity expert Karim Hijazi managing director and general partner.

Hijazi joins the firm after working as a cybersecurity senior executive and entrepreneur, and he founded several startups in the field of cyber-related threat intelligence. As SCP&CO’s new managing director, Hijazi will support the firm's expanded focus on emerging technologies and platforms, focusing on opportunities associated with cybersecurity, the firm says.

Hijazi will also work on new authenticity technologies to counter the growing risks and disruptive potential posed by rapidly evolving capabilities such as artificial intelligence. Hijazi will work with the firm’s fund managing director, Chris Pizzo, in creating a new investment strategy centered around these technologies.