Yuri Bobbert

Bobbert completed a Master's and a bachelor's degree in Informatics at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences before earning a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Antwerp and a PhD in Information System Science from Radboud University Nijmegen, both conferred in 2018.[1] His dissertation, titled Improving the Maturity of Business Information Security, examined the design of a software tool to connect strategic security goals to operational management processes.

Bobbert served for a decade as CEO of B-ABLE, a risk consulting and security technology firm. He later served as interim CISO at UWV, the Dutch public employment services agency, and then as Global Group Chief Security Officer at NN Group, where he led the integration of NN Group's and Delta Lloyd's security, risk, and compliance functions following their merger. In October 2019, he joined ON2IT, a Netherlands-based managed cybersecurity service provider, as Global Chief Security Officer.

In 2018, he co-founded Meetingwizard, a software-as-a-service company. In 2023, he founded Anove International.

Bobbert has been a professor at Antwerp Management School and the University of Antwerp since 2016 and has served as academic director of its Executive Master's in IT Risk and Cybersecurity Management programme since 2017.