People at the foundation

The board of the Privacy by Design foundation consists of the people listed below. They all fulfill their role in the board in a personal capacity and are not being paid for it.

  • Chairman: Bart Jacobs (b.jacobs ‘at’ privacybydesign.foundation)

    Bart Jacobs is a full professor of computer security at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He works, together with his research group, on many societally relevant security and privacy topics, such as medical privacy, public transport travel cards, electronic voting.

  • Secretary: Monique Hennekens

    Monique Hennekens is a judge at the court of appeal of Arnhem-Leeuwarden. Before that, Monique was an attorney-at-law, specialised in privacy and IT law. Monique helps the Privacy by Design foundation with the legal aspects regarding Yivi.

  • Treasurer: Jean Popma (j.popma ‘at’ privacybydesign.foundation)

    Jean Popma works as project manager Applied Security Research at Radboud University Nijmegen; in that role he is responsible for the realization of privacy-friendly systems for the storage and sharing of scientific medical date. He has ample experience as ICT-manager and as Security Officer within Radboud University.

  • Martijn van der Linden is Teamleider Quality and Development of the municipality Oss. Earlier he worked for the city of Nijmegen where he was closely involved with the pioneering Yivi (at the time: IRMA) developments there.

  • Tim Vermeulen (t.vermeulen ‘at’ privacybydesign.foundation) is IT R&D Manager at network company Alliander. His teams works on embedding innovative IT solutions in the energy landscape. This involves techniques like Blockchain, Augmented Reality en Continuous Delivery platforms. Tim focuses on using Yivi technology within the energy domain.