Koen S

I teach the module on AI risk & governance models in the Dutch version of the AI for DPOs training https://www.dp-institute.eu/nl/opleidingen/ai-voor-dpos/

Mentor of Trosort (https://www.trosort.com/) in cohort 17 Co-mentor of Tenbeo (https://www.tenbeo.ai/) in cohort 15

I help both established businesses and young technology companies scale and become enterprise-ready, with a focus on smart governance. Contact me if you're struggling to: 1) Win trust from large enterprises to close that deal. 2) Build a strategy to grow your business and organization while managing risk. 3) Navigate the complexities of compliance and regulation to ensure responsible innovation. Examples of recent engagements: • ISO 27001 implementation & DPO advisory at climate-tech platform • NIS2 implementation at specialized neurological centre • Vendor / 3rd party risk management for employee experience service provider • GDPR compliance Privacy & security awareness training for wellbeing provider • ISO 27001 & SOC-2 implementation for biometric authentication product

Daily management of a tech scale-up delivering an enterprise SaaS solution to multinational customers. Member of the executive team responsible for a hybrid team of 50 people including customer success, service delivery, product development, R&D and technology, infosec and compliance. Overseeing the Finance and HR functions. • Onboarded 10+ Fortune Global 500 clients having met their security and compliance requirements • Delivered AI-based solutions for driver coaching and mobility to banks, insurers, and technology companies • Contributed to a global strategy, budgeting and financial performance reporting, invited to board of directors meetings • Reorganized the team to re-introduce a culture that focuses on client relationships and reduced operational costs with 20% • Improve efficiency of organizational processes and procedures, collaborate with relevant stakeholders on the implementation of new technologies and systems

Architect and engagement lead in the Cyber Defence data protection practice • Advised customers on cryptography, HSM & key management, data classification, information rights management, DLP, privacy and GDPR • Architected data-centric solutions for export control compliance in aerospace, protecting intellectual property in manufacturing, personal data and PCI DSS discovery in retail and hospitality, at-rest encryption and key management in financial services • Global pre-sales support: technical scoping, customer presentations, sales collateral, SOW creation, RFP responses, costing and pricing. Managing the IT lab environment and demonstration of information protection use cases. • Defined end-to-end solution tracks for data classification and key management. Developing new offerings around the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) engaging different practices and legal, marketing and sales teams. • Delivered global implementations of identity and access management solutions, data classification tools and DLP. Supervised other consultants on a project basis and external developers. Supported resource planning, forecasting and timelines

Development of an application to identify and measure PUFs (physical uncloneable functions) in ordinary PC components. PUFs are the equivalent of biometrics in hardware and refer to the unique physical properties of a device on which security can be based.

Researcher in cryptology and information security focused on biometric template protection and privacy • Designed attacks and implemented analysis algorithms against fuzzy encryption schemes • Represented the lab in hearings with the European Commission and executive board meetings as sub-project leader for the FP7 project Turbine • Prepared proposals and secured 0.8 million euro in funding • Manage resources and contributed to European (FP7) and national research projects • Supervised four master theses and a programming project on keyboard sniffing for engineering students from the 2nd bachelor • Public speaking at conferences and workshops