Datamaran has appointed Bert Sinnema as its new chief technology officer, the AI-powered risk and governance software company said Thursday. Sinnema will be based in the firm’s Leeuwarden office in the Netherlands and will lead Datamaran’s global engineering and product teams, including its engineering hub in Valencia, Spain.
Mandate: speed up AI-driven product development
As CTO, Sinnema will own the company’s product vision, strategy and technology roadmap — from architecture through delivery and team management. The company said his appointment comes as Datamaran deepens its use of artificial intelligence across the platform to provide customers with faster, more decision-ready insights into risk, regulation and stakeholder expectations.
The role is explicitly framed as a scaling and acceleration job: Sinnema’s mandate is to lead the engineering and product organisation, accelerate AI-driven product development and ensure the platform keeps pace with an increasingly complex risk landscape.
Experience at cybersecurity and bug-bounty platforms
Sinnema brings more than 12 years of product engineering leadership experience, spanning startups, scale-ups and category-leading platforms. His recent position was vice-president of engineering at Eye Security, where he helped build the product and engineering organisation from the ground up, scaled a multi-hub international team threefold and supported the company through a €60-million Series C round.
Prior to Eye Security, Sinnema spent over three years at HackerOne, the ethical hacking and bug-bounty platform, rising to the role of director of engineering. Earlier in his career he founded and served as CTO of SmartLockr, a secure communications and privacy platform that he bootstrapped, scaled across three countries and took through Microsoft’s Ventures Accelerator in Berlin.
"Bert has spent his career building engineering organizations from the ground up"
The appointment signals Datamaran’s emphasis on operationalising AI capabilities inside a regulated and compliance-driven product. For organisations that buy risk and governance software, the practical questions will be whether new AI features improve the speed and accuracy of regulatory monitoring, and how Datamaran safeguards data and model integrity as the platform scales.
- Location: Sinnema is based in Leeuwarden, Netherlands; engineering hub in Valencia, Spain.
- Primary focus: product vision, architecture, delivery and AI-driven development.
- Relevant experience: Eye Security (VP engineering), HackerOne (director of engineering), founder/CTO of SmartLockr.
Datamaran positions itself as an AI-powered provider of risk and governance software. The company’s platform is used to help organisations identify and manage evolving risks, regulatory change and stakeholder expectations. The new CTO appointment comes at a time when many enterprise software vendors are racing to incorporate generative and applied AI into compliance, reporting and risk-analytics workflows.
| Company | Role | Notable outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| Eye Security | VP of Engineering | Scaled team 3x; supported €60M Series C |
| HackerOne | Director of Engineering | Leadership at leading ethical-hacking platform |
| SmartLockr | Founder & CTO | Bootstrapped and scaled across three countries; Microsoft Ventures Accelerator |
For customers and competitors, Sinnema’s appointment offers a clearer signal about Datamaran’s technical priorities: scale engineering teams, move faster on AI-driven capabilities and tighten product architecture to deliver real-time or near-real-time insights for enterprise clients. How quickly those changes translate into measurable improvements in signal accuracy, timeliness and regulatory coverage will determine the market response.
Datamaran did not publish an implementation timeline for new product features or specific hiring plans tied to the CTO appointment. The company’s statement frames the move as a step toward keeping its platform aligned with accelerating regulatory change and stakeholder demands.
