Koen Simoens Email & Phone Number

Brussels, Be

I help young technology companies scale and become enterprise ready. Contact me if you're struggling to:1) win trust from large companies to close that enterprise deal2) build a strategy to grow your business and organization3) manage the complexity of compliance and regulation

Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Be

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/

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Be

Co-mentored the start-up Tenbeo (https://www.tenbeo.ai/) in cohort 15

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Be

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

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Be

CISO responsible for information security and privacy • Formed an infosec committee (PrivSec) that oversees governance, security operations, risk management and employee training • Achieved and maintained ISO 27001 & 27701 certification • Transformed a handful of copy-paste policies into documentation that is adequate for our organization • Maintain regulatory compliance and successfully passed 20+ client audits • Raised security awareness and trained the team annually on incident response

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Be

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Be

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Architect and engagement lead in the Cyber Defence data protection practice • Advised customers on cryptography, 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 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

Brussels, Be

Evaluated proposals as independent expert submitted in response to the Horizon 2020 call in the area of security-by-design, end-to-end security and cryptography, work programme LEIT-ICT-32-2014-1 (Cybersecurity, Trustworthy ICT). Horizon 2020 is the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.

Leuven, Be

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

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.

Doctor In De Ingenieurswetenschappen (Phd), Engineering

Selected Courses Of Master In Management, Economics

Burgerlijk Ingenieur In De Computerwetenschappen (Master Of Engineering: Computer Science), Computer Science