Datamaran, an AI-powered risk management and governance software provider, appointed Bert Sinnema as chief technology officer on Sept. 4, 2026. Based at the company’s office in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, Sinnema will oversee global engineering and product teams, including the engineering hub in Valencia, Spain. His remit covers Datamaran’s product vision, technology strategy and roadmap, from direction-setting and architecture through implementation and team management. He joins as Datamaran increases artificial intelligence integration to deliver faster, actionable analysis for decisions involving risk, regulation and stakeholder expectations. Sinnema brings more than 12 years of product-engineering leadership experience across startups, scale-ups and major platforms, with expertise spanning engineering, cybersecurity and AI. At Eye Security, where he was vice president of engineering, he built the product and engineering organization from scratch, tripled its international, multi-site team and helped secure a €60 million Series C funding round. His previous roles included more than three years at HackerOne, where he became director of engineering, and founding SmartLockr, a secure communications and privacy platform that he bootstrapped, expanded into three countries and advanced to Microsoft’s Ventures Accelerator program in Berlin. Datamaran said his experience will support its shift from ESG issue management toward an AI-powered governance platform.