Klaas leads the Identity and Access Management (IAM), Security, Cloud, and New Services Development teams.
He joined GÉANT in 2017, bringing an extensive background in innovation management, with an emphasis on identity, mobility and security. Before joining GÉANT, Klaas was a senior consulting engineer and identity architect at respectively Cisco Systems’ Research and Advanced Development group and Cloud Infrastructure Services group. Prior to that, he was an innovation manager and manager of Middleware services at SURFnet, where he built the first generation of federated identity systems at SURFnet and was the creator of the eduroam service for Wi-Fi roaming in research and education.
