The finalists of the Belgium’s Cyber Security Personality of the Year

2023 Shortlist of the award finalists

Cyber Security Personality

Miguel De Bruycker

Managing Director General

CENTRE FOR CYBERSECURITY BELGIUM (CCB)

Despina Spanou

Head of Cabinet Vice President Schinas

EUROPEAN COMMISSION

Nina Olesen

Head of Sector

EUROPEAN CYBER SECURITY ORGANISATION (ECSO) & WOMEN4CYBER FOUNDATION

Gunter Van De Wiele

Beleidsadviseur Innovatie en Ontwikkeling

FEDERAL POLICE BELGIUM

Laurent Minne

Fondateur, CISO, Membre exécutif

BE.CYBER

CISO

Claudio Bolla

Group Information Security Director

INEOS

Siska Hallemeesch

Information Security Consultant active as a CISO as a Service

NVISO BELGIUM

Majdeline Elatrache

Information Security Manager

STIB-MIVB

Philippe Michiels

CISO

CEGEKA

Steven Weytjens

CISO

ZIEGLER

Cyber Security Educator/Researcher

Axel Legay

Professor

UCLOUVAIN

Kurt Callewaert

Valorisatiemanager Digitale Transformatie

HOWEST UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES

Yuri Bobbert

Professor

ANTWERP MANAGEMENT SCHOOL (AMS)

Wouter Castryck

Research Expert

KU LEUVEN (RESEARCH GROUP COSIC)

Mathy Vanhoef

Assistant Professor

KU LEUVEN

Young Cyber Security Professional

Maarten Toelen

Manager - Crisis Management & Cyber Resilience

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS (PWC)

Guillaume Deterville

Co-fondateur

CRESCO CYBERSECURITY & BEHACK

Inti De Ceukelaire

Chief Hacker Officer

INTIGRITI

Maxime Thiebaut

Incident Response. Digital Forensics and Threat Intelligence Analyst

NVISO

Soultana Ellinidou

Cybersecurity Manager

THALES GROUP BELGIUM

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2023 Shortlist of the award finalists

Cyber Security Personality

Miguel De Bruycker

Despina Spanou

Nina Olesen

Gunter Van De Wiele

Laurent Minne

CISO

Claudio Bolla

Siska Hallemeesch

Majdeline Elatrache

Philippe Michiels

Steven Weytjens

Cyber Security Educator/Researcher

Axel Legay

Kurt Callewaert

Yuri Bobbert

Wouter Castryck

Mathy Vanhoef

Young Cyber Security Professional

Maarten Toelen

Guillaume Deterville

Inti De Ceukelaire

Maxime Thiebaut

Soultana Ellinidou

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