Founder, CyberSec Topic Leader
Trustcore.EU, Solvay.EDU
Erik has years of experience/expertize in amongst others: Governance/Risk/Compliance, eGovernment/eBusiness/eBanking, Trust Services and Trusted/Trustworthy (eco-)systems, Enterprise (Security) Architectures, Service Oriented Architectures and Cloud Platforms, Data Privacy & Data Protection, Information & CyberSecurity (Management), …
Erik's experiences include activities in public sector (Chancellery of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Federal ICT Department (Fedict), the eGov & ICT agency of the Flemish Gov, DG Connect, DG Employment, DG RTD, EC-ISA, ENISA, etc.) as well as activities in a diverse spectrum of private sector organizations (incl. NBB, ING, KBC, Electrabel Suez, Infrabel, DeLijn, BPost, Euroclear, BNP Paribas Fortis, ...).
Erik's achievements include being one of the fathers/authors of the blueprint for the Belgian Personal Identity Card Project (BelPIC) and being one of the fathers of key egov-supporting services at the Flemish government (wide range of (trust-)services wrt e-identification / e-authentication / authorisation / e-signing / stamping /... ). Erik in the past also helped to blueprint the EESSI-platform which formed one of the foundations for the CEF-eDelivery-building block (CEF = Connecting Europe Facilities).
Key content-topics Erik focusses on at current are: Enterprise (Security) Architecture Management, Implementation of the eIDAS-Trust Regulation, the vast topic of Openbanking (incl Payment Services Directive 2) as well as Blockchain / Shared Ledger platform-design & implementation.