Dr. Melanie Rieback is a pioneering cybersecurity expert, entrepreneur, and academic best known as the CEO and Co-founder of Radically Open Security, the world's first not-for-profit cybersecurity company. She also founded Nonprofit Ventures, a "Post Growth" startup incubator dedicated to reimagining sustainable business models. A former Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Melanie currently designs and teaches the Post Growth Entrepreneurship course at the University of Amsterdam's Business School and serves as a Cybersecurity lecturer at Singularity University. She is a Fellow of the Post Growth Institute and has earned widespread recognition for her innovative contributions to the tech and cybersecurity industries, including being named "Most Innovative IT Leader of the Netherlands" by CIO Magazine (TIM Award) in 2017 and one of the "9 Most Innovative Women in the European Union" by the EU Women Innovators Prize in 2019. She has been recognized among the 400 most successful women in the Netherlands by Viva Magazine in both 2010 and 2017, and was named one of the fifty most inspiring women in tech by Inspiring Fifty Netherlands in 2016, 2017, and 2019. Under her leadership, Radically Open Security was ranked the 50th Most Innovative SME by the Dutch Chamber of Commerce in 2016, cementing her reputation as a transformative force in cybersecurity, ethical entrepreneurship, and technology innovation.