Jan Vandenbos
Security & platform executive. Founder. Builder of teams, systems, and companies.
Twenty-five years building and defending large-scale technology — from AT&T's mobile network and Microsoft's developer platforms to leading security as CISO for global consumer platforms. I build AI-forward security programs, scale platform-engineering organizations, and start companies. Now I back founders on Canada's West Coast.
01 Now
Founder of Boundary Condition — a West Coast Canadian incubator and accelerator backing entrepreneurs and innovators working to make things better, with a focus on rural development and the overlooked corners of the map.
02 Building
03 Previously
Head of Security / Interim CISO at Grindr. Owned cybersecurity for the Paris 2024 Olympics — ticketing, hospitality, and logistics — as VP Security / Interim CISO (On Location / Endeavor). Director of Platform at LeagueApps; interim VP Platform Engineering at ESO. Head of Data Engineering for Cybersecurity Sciences at HSBC; Principal Applied AI Researcher at T-Mobile. Senior PM and Security PM at Microsoft (Azure DevOps Artifacts; applied ML for application security), and earlier helped launch Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing initiative in 2004. Designed the security for AT&T's network at the iPhone launch. Co-founder / CTO of CX.
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