Marc Vael

Marc Vael (°1967) has three Master's degrees (Applied Economics, Information Management and IT Management). In 1995 Marc started the IT audit department at Arthur Andersen Belgium with 2 colleagues. In 2002, Marc became director at KPMG Advisory Belgium, and was also national CISO and Data Protection Officer until 2007. Currently Marc is Chief Audit Executive at Smals, a Belgian IT company with more than 1800 employees working primarily for Belgian Federal Social Security Institutions. Marc has more than 15 years active experience in evaluating, designing, implementing and monitoring solutions on risk and information security management, incident and business continuity management, data protection/privacy and IT Audit. Marc is a platinum member of ISACA, Vice President of ISACA Belgium and chairman of the Communities Committee and the Cloud Computing Task Force at ISACA International. He is a passionate speaker and published author involved with research and innovation in his core expertise domains. Marc is guest lecturer at AMS (www.antwerpmanagementschool.be) since 1997 and deputy member of the Flemish Privacy Commission since 2010. In his spare time, Marc runs marathons with colleagues from the Managers Marathon Club and has successfully finished 10 official marathons including the Big 5 (New York, Chicago, Boston, London and Berlin).