Stu Sjouwerman

About Stu Sjouwerman

KnowBe4 went from startup to a public NASDAQ listed company to private as a Vista Private Equity portfolio company. We are expanding globally. To continue that path, we are looking for great people to join our team. If you are looking for a company with excellent growth opportunities and an multiple award-winning \"best-place-to-work\" culture, go to our jobs page and apply. This is my fifth startup. I have decades of experience in IT. My last company was called Sunbelt Software, scaled up to hundreds of staff as co-founder. Up to now I have made it into the Inc 500 seven times. Pioneered a new category with KnowBe4. Partnered with Kevin Mitnick and created what is now the world’s largest new-school Security Awareness Training and Simulated Phishing platform. We enable employees to make smarter security decisions and create a \"human firewall\". This game-changing platform instantly gives organizations security awareness training combined with simulated phishing and vishing attacks to inoculate employees against social engineering. A four-time Leader in Gartner\'s Magic Quadrant with KnowBe4. Managing Editor of CyberheistNews, for IT pros that need the latest facts, news and tools to protect their network against cybercrime. Specialties: Building new companies from scratch. IT, Marketing, Internet Security, Cybercrime, Social Engineering.

Experience

1. Ooda Network Expert

   Ooda Llc

   Jul 2019 — Present

Education

• Universiteit van Amsterdam

  Studied Educational Sciences, but dropped out and went into IT in 1979, Pedagogy, Statistics, Psychology

  1977 — 1979

• Rijksscholen Gemeenschap Purmerend

  High School Equivalent, Languages, History,