John Cockerill (11/2020 – Present Day)

Group CISO & Head of IT Systems a.i

• Responsible for establishing and maintaining the Cybersecurity & IT infrastructure vision, strategy, and program to ensure information assets and technologies are adequately protected, and business expansion risks are decreased.
• Driving compliance to ISO27001 (Group level) & CMMC (Defence sector level)

DigiSôter (08/2019 – Present Day)

Co-Founding Partner

• IT & Security Risk Management (ISO27001, NIS, NIST, EBIOS, GDPR, FFIEC, CIS…)
• IT & Cybersecurity strategy, architecture, governance and audit
• As-a-service (Risk management, CISO & DPO, Third-party security assessment, SWIFT CSP, IAM Journey)
• Partnership with PECB (ISO27XXX certification), Knowbe4 (Security Awareness), Pentesting (Pentera), GRC (Eramba), IAM (Elimity)
   
   

Cercle francophone des Décideurs des Technologies du Numérique - CfDTN (06/2019 – Present Day)

Board Member 

IT-as-a-Service Consulting (ITaaSC) (10/2012 – Present Day)

Owner, Managing Director

• IT strategy
• IT Governance
• IT Security
• Digital Transformation

Digiteal (09/2017 – Present day)

IT Security Advisor & DPO (Data Protection Officer)

Euroclear (07/2017 – 02/2021)

Interim Manager: Cybersecurity Project & Service Acceptance manager

Strengthen Euroclear cybersecurity access management capabilities  

VADIS (10/2016 – 06/2017)

CIO & Security Interim manager

• Delivery of Big Data Analytics, Predictive Modelling and Data Mining projects
• Implementation of ISO27001 controls, Secure coding and IT Governance 
• GDPR compliance
   
   

AXA Belgium (12/2012 – 09/2016)

01/2014 – 09/2016: Interim manager – Program management and Head of Centres of Expertise

• Delivery of the IT Foundation Renewal Program 
• Responsible for Centres of Expertise SOA, Integration & Java and Front-End
   
   

12/2012 – 01/2014: Interim manager – Head of Service Oriented Architecture/Integration Centre of Expertise 

• Designed, built & led the SOA Centre of Excellence 
• Implemented E2E SOA Governance
• Automated Bank & Insurance processes

ING (04/2008 – 10/2012) 07/2010 – 10/2012: BPM Programme Director & Head of BPM, SOA & Integration Competence centre

• Led Business Process Management (BPM), Workflow management, Services integration and Enterprise content management programmes at ING Belgium
• Automated processes (internet banking, accounts payable, account opening, business lending…)
• Defined SOA & BPM architecture roadmap including software selection
• Built the BPM, SOA and Integration Competence centre
• Deployed capabilities to increase customer satisfaction, decrease costs and increase predictability
• Conceived and implemented the SOA governance

04/2008 – 07/2010: Head of Transactional & Reconciliations services – Wholesale Banking

• End-to-end responsible for International Financial Messaging (SWIFT, SEPA, Target 2, payments), Matching and Reconciliation, Exception Handling and Investigations (Pega), Pre- & Post-transaction screening and Customer screening services 
• Selection of a messaging payment hub/EAI solution (RFI & RFP)
• Drove a shared vision of the enterprise architecture for high-value payments
• Increased services availability to 99,98%
• Led ING Group SWIFT strategy
• Centralized Transactional & Reconciliations services for the ING Group

SWIFT (01/2000 – 04/2008) 01/2006 – 04/2008: Senior Product Manager, SWIFTNet Messaging Services

• Led the design, development and implementation of the strategy for SWIFT messaging services and associated products 
• Member of the European Central Bank (ECB) TG5 team (T2S technical team: Interfaces and telecommunication) - Target 2 for securities

05/2004 – 12/2005: Head of Publication Management & Documentation Product manager

• Defined new online strategy for SWIFT publication
• Increased profits by more than 10% (P&L responsibility for SWIFT Publication product line)
• Introduced new methodologies:  Information mapping, documentation single-sourcing, simplified English
• Ensured SAS70 compliance

12/2002 – 04/2004: Head of Marketing Support

• Created & developed the Competitive Intelligence, Marketing Planning Office and Market Research departments
• Defined the SWIFT Competitive Consultative Selling strategy

01/2000 – 12/2002: Head of Workplace Technology (MIS) & E-Business segment leader

• Restructured and managed the Workplace Technology department (BE, UK, US, HK) 
• Increased end-user satisfaction by 15 % (over 90 %) by reshaping services and support
• Successfully defined and executed enterprise-wide IT strategic plans
• Outsourced the IT helpdesk - Integrated « One Stop Shop service » 24X7 single global helpdesk 

EVC INTERNATIONAL (01/1998 – 01/2000)

Group Information Technology & Standards Manager 

• Defined and deployed new Office Automation standards for the EVC Group to minimize the total cost of ownership and provide a competitive advantage to the EVC Businesses
• Defined the new strategy for the Corporate IT infrastructure
• Negotiated outsourcing contracts for Mainframe and WAN services 

OWENS CORNING (07/1995 – 12/1997)

MIS Architecture, Services operations, Alliances & Sourcing Leader for Europe

• Created and managed the European MIS Architecture & Support team to support the European users (+/- 2000)
• Negotiated successfully major European outsourcing contracts (WAN, IT support, mainframe)

AC NIELSEN (07/1993 – 07/1995)

IS Project Manager 

• Developed the AC Nielsen Executive Information Systems (EIS) 
• Installed the Belgian Shared Services Computer Centre

AT&T EUROPE (04/1990 – 07/1993)

Senior Associate Telecommunications Services

Special assignment: March 92 - September 92:  IS Site Manager AT&T NORDICS Stockholm

Military Service – Reserve Officer at the Headquarters of the Command Forces of the Interior (03/1989 - 04/1990)

Conferences & Publications

• Conferences speaker: (FINTECH Belgium, B-Hive, BECI, Partena, CIO Club, OECCBB…)
• Articles on Cybersecurity & GDPR: IZEO & BECI magazines, blogs,…
• Book: La protection des données pour les institutions publiques (Anthemis)