Ad Krikke started his career as a business consultant and project manager at Top 500 organizations in the Benelux. Connecting theme in his assignments was aligning business needs with IT technology. He was also the CIO of wholesaler and logistics firm Lekkerland. In this function he was responsible for restructuring the IT organization.. Since 2002. Ad Krikke works for Dutch based multi-national Royal DSM. After several years as a program manager of several large IT projects Ad moved to the internal audit organization of DSM. Six years in a lead auditors role allowed him to get a strong insight in the DSM business and risk management. Since 2012 Ad is safeguarding the digital information of DSM in the role of the CISO. Currently he is implementing a business and risk based, multi-line of defense Cyber Resilience Strategy. Together with the business innovative opportunity seeking ideas are developed to serve business and information security objectives.
