Ard Westerik

Ard is the CTO for Royal HaskoningDHV’s Digital business line. Over the last 10 years of his professional career, he has been heavily involved in agility topics, starting out as General Manager at an IT incubator company supporting start-ups. This was followed by the role of IT Director for an education platform, where his focus was on releasing a new version to 1.2 million every three weeks while at the same time breaking down the monolith.

More recently, Ard fulfilled the role of Manager Software Development at NS where he became actively involved in Agile, LEAN, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps practices. This enabled him to further evolve into an Agile Leader instead of Manager. In his current role, he is continuing his journey to bridge IT and civil engineering.

Tom Moekotte

After completing two master’s degrees in the fields of Infrastructure Planning and Information Management, Tom started working at Royal HaskoningDHV in 2018. He fulfilled the roles of Geographical Information System (GIS) expert and quality assurer before taking on his current role: Information Security Officer for the Digital business line. This involves working closely with the corporate-level CISO and Ard, the department CTO. He is responsible for the planning and implementation of security policies, conducting asset classifications and risk assessments, and giving awareness sessions and training.

Tom believes that to stay on top of your risks, context and dialogue are key, and likes to focus on the human interaction and secure-by-design culture among colleagues. “You can have the best tools, processes, and techniques,” he says, “but humans remain our most valuable asset.”

Outside of work, Tom sings in various choirs as a tenor. These choirs have also given him the opportunity to go on plenty of international tours.