Xander Heemskerk is the Director Product Security - Personal Health in the Product and Services Security Office (PSSO) at Philips. In this role he drives the Product Security programs and initiatives for Medical Devices and Wellness solutions worldwide. IOT, Mobile Apps, Cloud IAAS, PAAS, SAAS, Big data and AI and their supply chains are crucial parts of the Products and Services delivered by Personal Health.

Prior to Philips Xander was the Corporate Security Officer (CSO) at TomTom and the CISO at oldest company in the world, Royal Vopak. He has been responsible for Corporate Security, Enterprise Information Security, Information Risk Management and Product Security on strategical, tactical and operational level.

Xander has over 40 years of experience in all aspects of Information Technology ranging from Consulting, Security, Architecture, Performance tuning, Design, Development, Coding, Testing and Operations in different roles and positions at Oracle, Orient Overseas Container Lines (OOCL) Ltd, Hong Kong Government, Everett, Ricoh and at 50+ companies in a consulting role. For Oracle University he has taught classes on Architecture, Security, High Availability, Performance design/tuning and Identity Management for both internal and external audiences.

Xander holds a bachelor’s degree in Higher Informatics from The Hague University of applied sciences, is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) since 2002, was a PECB Certified ISO/IEC 27001 Lead Implementer from 2018 to 2023 and has Certified Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) since 2013. From 2020 he is a member in good standing of the Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS).