Fred Streefland graduated in 1992 from the Netherlands Royal Military Academy and served 16 years as an Intelligence & Security officer (LtCol) within the Royal Netherlands Air Force. In 2008, he transferred to the private sector and started to work for IBM, Accenture, ENCS, Exact Software and Leaseweb. After these roles, he moved to Palo Alto Networks as the Chief Security Officer (Field CISO) for North and East Europe, followed by a CEO position at Secior BV, a Dutch startup company, specialized in OT Security for datacenters. Currently, Fred works as the Global Field CISO for Check Point Software Technologies, responsible for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Fred holds an Executive Master of Security & Defense (EMSD) of the Netherlands Staff College and a Bachelor (Bc.) title of the University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam.