Maarten a former Board Member and Chairman of the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), a non-profit association of 530 security teams in 96 countries. He is also Lead Expert to the UN Internet Governance Forum's Best Practices Forum on Cybersecurity, and works as Chief Information Security Officer at Zendesk. Maarten has over 15 years of experience managing security organizations, which includes building the cybersecurity threat intelligence team at Amazon and work on the Security teams at Google and Microsoft. He holds a master's degree in information security from Edith Cowan University and a master's degree in international relations from the Freie Universitat Berlin.