Stefan van Eijden

Stefan van Eijden has been the Head of IT Operations & Infrastructure at the Hamburg Port Authority AöR (HPA) since September 2012. As a IT manager in the direct reporting line to the CIO, he is responsible for strategic decisions on the IT infrastructure as well as for the security and stability of IT production. His areas of expertise include the complete IT infrastructure, starting with HPA's own fiber optic backbone networks in the port of Hamburg, through to the operation of two fully redundant and virtualized data centers. Furthermore, Stefan van Eijden is responsible for the integration of cloud services, communication platforms and the operation of workplace solutions. For several years, the focus has been on the area of cyber security, for which Stefan van Eijden is operationally responsible for the HPA. Before joying the HPA in 2012, Stefan van Eijden worked for several years as a technical account manager at Microsoft Germany and as a team leader in the IT infrastructure at Dataport. His professional foundations lie in police training, which perhaps explains his high affinity for cyber security.