Guido van 't Noordende is founder/director of Whitebox Systems, a spin-off of the University of Amsterdam specializing in decentralized, secure, privacy-friendly communication tools for healthcare. Before starting Whitebox Systems in 2013, he was a postdoc at the UvA. Guido van 't Noordende holds a PhD from Vrije Universiteit, where he studied at the Computer Systems department with Frances Brazier and Andrew S. Tanenbaum.