At Sirris, Patrick Coomans currently helps companies with their cybersecurity strategy as a consultant cybersecurity innovation and entrepreneurship. In addition, he is a cybersecurity entrepreneurship coach at Agoria and the European Commission, and he also works for KU Leuven Distrinet as industry liaison for an API Security research programme.
Patrick is a former cybersecurity technology entrepreneur. After having sold his company to Verizon in 2011, he held various EMEA and Global roles at Verizon, both in cybersecurity consulting and cybersecurity product marketing, as well as their Innovation Incubator. He helped launch a cybersecurity community at B-Hive, a fintech collective in Brussels, in 2017-2019 and introduced a trust label for fintech startups “Trusted Fintech”. He also works for Agoria to help digital product companies accelerate their growth and internationalization, at Scaleup Vlaanderen.
Patrick is a judge for MIT Innovators Under 35 Europe, a coach at Vlerick Business School, a mentor at IMEC iStart, and he used to coach at Netwerk Ondernemen and Pulse Foundation.
