LSEC - Leaders in Security

About the Members of the Board and the Committees

The following people are daily working very hard improving LSEC, the security market in Belgium and Europe in general and some of our events and activities.
If you would like to support us in our mission and/or our activities, please feel free to contact us and indicate your interest and desired contributions.

the LSEC Board of Directors

• Non-Executive Chairman of the Board : Dr. Prof. Bart Preneel, head of COSIC Research Group

  

  Bart Preneel received the Electrical Engineering degree and the Doctorate in Applied Sciences in 1987 and 1993 respectively, both from the K.U.Leuven (Belgium). He is currently full professor at the K.U.Leuven. He has been visiting professor at the Technical University of Denmark (2007), T.U.Graz in Austria (1997-2006), University of Bergen in Norway (1997-2001), Ruhr-Universität in Bochum (Germany) (2001-2002) and at the University of Ghent (1994-2002). He is a scientific advisor of Philips Research (the Netherlands). During the academic year 1993-1994, he was a research fellow of the EECS Department of the University of California at Berkeley. His main research interests are cryptology and applied information security.
  Bart's Motivation : LSEC is an excellent way for COSIC and Bart to be connected to the industry of IT security. Interested in innovative developments and research projects through LSEC. Bart's Contribution : Providing his wide range of contacts and relations to the benefit of LSEC, As expert in the field of Informatoin security, he is a true asset to LSEC on an international level for his strategic advise, link into the academic research and capable of providing resources for special projects.

• Ulrich Seldeslachts is CEO of LSEC

  
  
  Ulrich joined LSEC late 2006, to support the organization in its future growth strategy. Prior to LSEC, he has started the European branch of Clearwire the North-American WiMAX operator, founded by Craig Mc Caw. Ulrich was responsible for the development of 7 broadband wireless operations throughout Europe. Ulrich has an experience in business and corporate development, and company innovation. He led the Venture Capital company of the Belgian incumbent telecoms operator between 1998 and 2003. He aims to use his experiences to solidify the further growth of Information Security business throughout Europe. Belgium is worldwide recognized for its teams of experts in Information Security because of technologies such as eID and AES-Rijndael.

• Member of the Board : Eddy Cormon, Director Strategic Partnerships at Vasco Data Security

  
  Mergers & Acquisitions : Defining, exploring, evaluating different acquisition targets. Market analyses, Product evaluations, Company assessment, Financial Forecasts (P&L,…), Due Diligence; Business Development Managing partnerships: integrate Vasco authentication solutions, integration initialization, contracts, defining combined offering, writing marketing documents. Business Development: authentication products to new markets: geographical (for online Banking) or new applications (non-online banking). Prior to Vasco, Eddy was also active as Business Unit Manager with Desk and Logistics and Operations with Option.
  Eddy's Motivation : To support L-SEC in being an “enabler”, to support anybody with a security idea to develop and enforce his entrepeneurial spirit Ensure that LSEC remains a not for profit, independent organization that represents the Information Security sector

• Member of the Board : Dr. Marijke De Soete, Managing Director Security4Biz

  
  Dr. Marijke De Soete is currently working as an independent consultant. She established her own consultancy company Security4Biz in April 2004. She offers consultancy services on risk management and security for Corporate Governance, business development in ICT security and security aspects of systems and applications based on emerging technologies. Until the end of 2003 she was holding the position of Vice President Emerging Technologies Product Security with MasterCard International since its merger with Europay. Before she was Director of Payment System Security at Europay from 1995 till 2001. Her team was responsible for the security architectures of payment products based on magstripe and chip.
  Marijke's motivation : As a strong believer in LSEC and its mission since its foundation, she was for the first time involved in its board since 2005. With 20 years of experience in ICT security in its broadest sense, from research over technical development and operations and last but not least business development, she was able to offer her expertise, vision and (international) network which she acquired over these years in support to the further development of LSEC. A further development of LSEC as a possible appropriate extension with new types of membership, maybe even internationally through associations; the further development and creation of new activities that are attractive and beneficial for its members both from a business and technical perspective while maintaining an appropriate level of innovation; its coordination and relation with governmental, industry and standardisation bodies while keeping it a profitable organisation.
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• Member of the Board : Kees Plas, Head of Security Practice Benelux, BT

  
  Based in the Netherlands and working from BT’s offices in Amsterdam and Brussels, Kees Plas manages BT’s security practice in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxemburg. In this capacity, he is responsible for business development and the delivery of BT’s security, business continuity and compliance products and services in the three Benelux countries.Kees is responsible for the launch of the practice’s new products and services and adapting them to local market needs and requirements. He works closely with BT’s Benelux-based customers. He has more than 10 years’ experience in the ICTservices industry. In the Benelux he is responsible for shaping BT's strategy and security approach in the market, with specific focus on the region Belgium and Netherlands. With LSEC he wants to create ties with the Belgian Industry experts to establish and determine views on where the Security playing field is going and also shaping that creation.

• Member of the Board : Carlo Schupp, partner Deloitte Advisory Services

  
  Carlo leads Deloitte’s audit and advisory services related to ICT risk, governance, security, control, compliance and certification. His clients typically seek for security assessments, business continuity planning, application audits, IT governance questions, computer forensics and incident response, and compliance reviews. Carlo has had a career managing business lines and new initiatives. He served twelve years at Swift as a leader in product and market management. He participated in The Way Forward programme to transform Swift from a passive institution to a commercial enterprise. He built Swift’s first data warehouse to analyse 6 million messages a day and he helped transform Swift from a proprietary network to a service provider embracing the internet. He conducted process audits and provided top-management consultancy to banks in the global top-100, etc. He also served five years at Ubizen (today Verizon Security Business Solutions) as CIO in a leading Outsourcing Service Provider. Carlo was part in founding LSEC together with K.U. Leuven - COSIC en K.U. Leuven LRD , from a clear need within Ubizen to position Leuven as a center of expertise on Information Security, with worldwide recognition of this expertise. Upon his departure at Ubizen, Carlo had to resign as Member of the Board of LSEC but rejoined not so long after that as an independent Member of the Board. The objective remains to create LSEC as a pole of attraction; to enable collaboration between members and to promote our Belgian expertise on a national and international level.

• Member of the Board : Chris Van den Abbeele, Solution Manager, Atos Origin

  
  Chris Van Den Abbeele is Solution Manager for Identity and Security solutions at Atos Origin. He is responsible for defining and managing the Identity and Access Management offering at Atos Origin Belgium. Chris has over ten years experience in designing Identity and Access Management solutions. He has a clear view on the technology, the market and the players. Prior to joining Atos Origin, Chris worked as a Technology Specialist at Novell for about ten years. Chris brings to the table +10 years experience in Identity and Access Management. He knows the technology, the market, the players, their offerings, their strengths and weaknesses.

Should you be interested in participating to the activities of LSEC, as an Expert Member or as an Individual or Enterprise, we are welcoming your thoughts and contirbutions.