Xander Koppelmans

About Xander Koppelmans

What does a cyber attack do to your company, your team, your relationships, and to you as an entrepreneur, including the consequential damage? Xander Koppelmans has experienced it all, and both the outcomes and his way of presenting are quite surprising. Without hesitation, everyone becomes painfully aware of their own vulnerabilities and feels an urgent need to take action immediately. Fortunately, there is also much to laugh about because we are here for our enjoyment too, right?

Xander Koppelmans has been a successful entrepreneur in the communications sector for 25 years when his own company is unexpectedly hacked. Despite his company being well-organized and secured, the damage turns out to be significant. He decides to share his story with other entrepreneurs to warn them about this great danger that we do not all fully comprehend yet.

Thus, he has unintentionally become a bit of “the personification of the hacked entrepreneur” and is often invited to give impactful lectures for both SMEs, large corporations, and governments due to his unique (inside) knowledge, openness, and presentation style.

Xander does not tell a technical story, but personally addresses your own vulnerabilities. From the CEO to the moderator and the lady in the cloakroom, everyone gets their turn, and afterwards, everyone immediately changes their passwords.

Cybersecurity is not just an IT department issue, but a team effort of the entire organization.

He speaks as entrepreneurs among themselves about what a cyber attack actually does to your company, your team, your customers, and to you as a person. A moving presentation where there is also a lot of laughter and where everyone learns a great deal. Passwords, behavior, and knowledge are tested among the attendees during the lecture and are found to be vulnerable in most cases. Fortunately, he also immediately explains how to keep all that trouble at bay.

After the hack, Xander shifted his focus from communication to digitally healthy entrepreneurship. He developed from a victim and expert by experience to ultimately a specialist and is the founder of MKB Cybertraining.nl and the podcast channel MKBCybertalk.nl. You can ask him anything; he will tell you everything.