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JAN VANDENBOS
"In his role as our Senior Security Architect, Jan Vandenbos has
been the key individual responsible for driving our entire online
security strategy and ongoing audits and assessments. He is an
action-oriented, forward-looking thought leader who has provided both
the technical tools and infrastructure as well as the processes and best
practices rigor that have enabled us to dramatically reduce our
vulnerability while increasing our code quality. He is an industry
expert who has the rare ability to work at both the executive level as
well as at the detailed application code level."
"Simply stated, his talents and his work here have been top notch.
Because of Jan's efforts, we are now an exemplary eCommerce site leading
the way."
Tim Roberts
Technical Director
AT&T E-Commerce
Jan Vandenbos's unique, future-focused perspective is informed by a
varied
and successful career that has afforded him an uncommon depth and
breadth of
professional knowledge and experience spanning a variety of market
sectors.
A frequent speaker and consultant in the areas of long-range risk
mitigation, strategic planning, and technology road-mapping and the
future,
Jan is recognized as a leader in not only assessing and addressing
potential
future risks, but also in helping businesses confront a full spectrum of
technology issues underlying long-term organizational preparedness and
viability.
He also serves on the board of directors of the
Galileo Educational
Network
Association, an organization dedicated to
advancing
one of the causes he is personally passionate about — more fully
and
effectively integrating science, math, technology, and project-based
learning into the education system.
He has previously served on advisory or governing boards for TwoJet
Systems/Glide Technologies, Cogneto LLC, Takbax Technologies and
Memotrax LLC.
In the course of his more-than twenty-year career encompassing both
business and technology innovation, Jan has founded and built four
successful companies and has played key executive roles in three others
during critical transitional periods of sale or acquisition. In addition
to serving as CEO for his own firms, he has held varied positions as
CIO, and Chief Security Officer and SVP Technology for different
organizations.
Jan is also the moderator for the Pacific Northwest Future Salon
(organized
under the auspices of the
Acceleration Studies Foundation) and is a frequent speaker
in the areas of
future studies and risk.
Jan currently is CEO and Chairman of Visiomente Corporation, a "cradle
to
launch" business consulting firm founded in 2008 through the merger of
Takbax Technologies LLC and Valhalla Research Group, Inc. Visiomente
assists
organizations in the launch of new technology products in the Web 2.0
environment with a comprehensive menu of services ranging from strategic
planning and organizational architecture and risk management to
technology
road-mapping, marketing and more. In addition, he runs
entp.org, a web
site
for future-oriented creative thinkers that borrows its name from the
Myers-Briggs Personality type designation for "inventor".
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