NANacho Alcalde CidPortfolio — 2026
Work

Turning security risk into decisions the business can actually take.

Four and a half years in consulting, writing and pricing the work. Now governance and strategy across seven markets of an international insurance group. A portfolio I prioritise but don’t control, so everything in it has to be worth funding first.

~150
Projects in the portfolio I own
7
Markets in Europe & Latin America
6
M&A security due diligences
10+
Proposals written and priced
& more
Below

Experience

May 2025 — Present
Cyber Security Governance & StrategyInsurance & healthEurope & Latin AmericaMadrid

Sanitas Bupa Group

I run the group’s cyber portfolio and the framework seven very different levels of maturity have to live with. My job is prioritisation and reporting into the CISO office, and then taking the same decisions to market security and IT leadership as a case they can fund.

  1. PMO for a ~150-project portfolio delivered by five manager-led teams across seven markets. I own prioritisation, quarterly review and what gets funded, and present it to the group committees, the group CISO and security and IT in all seven markets.

  2. Six security due diligences on acquisitions. Assessment under real time and information constraints, cost-to-remediate for the deal team, then integration into the group model after close.

  3. Framework adoption across seven markets. I translated the group’s NIST CSF standards and metrics into a model each country could implement at its own level of maturity, and agreed it market by market.

  4. Buyer side: evaluated security tools, took part in RFPs and managed vendors.

  5. Built my own reporting tooling with agentic AI: portfolio dashboards across seven markets of data, instead of waiting on a BI backlog. Plus the programme to secure internet-facing assets, and post-incident governance: root cause, remediation plan and the funding case behind it.

Jan 2021 — May 2025
Senior Consultant 2024–2025Consultant 2021–2024Banking, insurance & healthMadrid

EY Financial Services

Four and a half years on the scope, effort and pricing behind proposals to banks and insurers, and on the security assessment and strategy work for some of the largest financial and health groups in the market: Santander (SCIB, Wealth Management, Santander España), CaixaBank, AXA, ASISA, BPI and Sanitas.

  1. Wrote and scoped 10+ proposals for new and follow-on engagements: client need, solution approach, effort model and pricing, for partner-led pitches into banking and insurance.

  2. Ran up to three concurrent engagements end to end: workplan, delivery and the CISO-level relationship, while writing new business alongside them.

  3. Security assessment and strategy for banks, insurers and health groups: gap assessment, control design and implementation roadmaps against ISO 27001/27002 and NIST, with the reporting that took each one to the client’s CISO.

  4. Designed the third-party risk model and process for a tier-1 bank on a six-month engagement, and ran supplier assessments against it. Delivered into Santander. Mentored junior consultants as Senior Consultant.

  5. Other projects: cloud security governance across Azure and AWS, operational resilience and business continuity (ISO 22301, DORA), and compliance programmes against PCI-DSS and SWIFT CSP.

Sep 2019 — Jun 2020
Alongside my degreeMadrid

Universidad Francisco de Vitoria IT Support Technician

I ran university IT support while studying Computer Engineering at the same university. My first paid technical work, in parallel with the degree.

2018 — 2021
Madrid
Education

BSc Computer Engineering Universidad Francisco de Vitoria

Software, networks and systems. The technical base everything since then has been built on, and the reason I can still build the tooling myself.

AI in practice

I build with AI daily, and it is increasingly what these decisions turn on.

  • Agentic tooling

    Analysis, reporting and internal tools built with Claude Code, MCP servers, custom skills and plugins.

  • Things I ship myself

    An IoT camera on a Raspberry Pi that detects cats autonomously, hardware to deployment. An AI-assisted system for managing my own finances.

  • This portfolio

    Designed and built with Claude Design and Claude Code — layout, copy and code, iterated the same way I run anything else.

  • Since 2018

    Following the field since university: model releases, tooling and evaluation practice, as a matter of course.

Skills & languages

Commercial & value

  • Business case development
  • Proposal scoping, effort estimation and pricing
  • C-level stakeholder management
  • Prioritisation and funding across a multi-market portfolio

Delivery

  • Portfolio and programme management
  • ~150 projects, 5 teams, 7 markets
  • M&A due diligence
  • Post-merger integration

Domain

  • Enterprise security and risk
  • NIST CSF · ISO 27001/27002 · ISO 22301
  • DORA and operational resilience
  • SWIFT CSP · Third-party risk
  • Cloud governance (Azure, AWS)

Languages

  • SpanishNative
  • EnglishFluent, daily at work
  • PortugueseLearning

Beyond work

Live music

Guitar and bass in a gigging band, with regular live performances.

On the road

Merchandise sales for touring bands at live venues since 2017. Direct selling to the public.

Volunteering

With people at risk of social exclusion, the elderly, and children of single mothers.

Sport

Golf, padel, CrossFit, skiing and surfing.

In the garage

Restoring a Suzuki Samurai for the countryside. Ongoing, and mostly my own hands.

Based in Madrid