Overview
Nathan Bijnens is CEO and co-founder of Scrydon, where he sets product vision and go-to-market strategy. The company builds the Cognitive Enterprise, a sovereign AI operating system and decision intelligence platform designed to keep AI systems within an organization's own perimeter. Its platform combines an agentic AI OS, self-service analytics anchored to organizational ontologies, a natural language interface called Cortex, a semantic enterprise layer, and zero-trust infrastructure that supports deployments from air-gapped environments to the cloud. Scrydon targets defence and NATO organizations, government institutions, critical infrastructure operators, financial services, and healthcare, and was founded by former Microsoft engineers, solution architects, and regulatory experts. He was most recently Sr. CSA Manager for Data & AI, leading the Data & AI team for strategic, commercial, and public sector clients including EU institutions and NATO, and held an ad-interim solution sales role for Data & AI covering NATO. He is based in Ghent and speaks and writes on AI, agentic AI, and big data.
From September 2010 to February 2011 he was a big data engineer at Netlog, where he set up Hadoop infrastructure for a social network with over 70 million members. He then consulted on Hadoop and big data at DataCrunchers from 2012 to 2014, including an engagement at Technicolor, and worked at Virdata from October 2013 to January 2016 as a senior big data and IoT engineer building IoT cloud platform infrastructure with Apache Spark, Storm, Cassandra, and Kafka. On the side he ran Servs BVBA, a part-time IT consulting business, from 2007 to 2014. He joined Microsoft in February 2016 as a Cloud Solution Architect for Advanced Analytics and AI, moved up to Sr. Cloud Solution Architect for Data & AI in 2019, and became Sr. CSA Manager for Data & AI in June 2021, a role he held until February 2026. From July 2023 he also carried an ad-interim solution sales role for Data & AI for NATO. He studied social-economic sciences at the University of Antwerp from 2005 to 2007 without completing the program, and holds the Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional certification.
As CEO of Scrydon, Bijnens runs strategy and growth across the company's agentic AI, analytics, and data spaces products, with a focus on regulated and public-sector customers in Europe.
Career history
In the news
- Spent the last few days immersed in the XAnge Founder Academy. When you’re heads-down building, rare spaces like this remind you how vital community really is. Transparent conversations, real war stories, and practical lessons you simply don’t get from a standard playbook. Massive thanks to Valerie B. and the XAnge team for the invitation AND for putting together such a thoughtful program, and to every founder in the room for the openness, sharp insights, and mutual energy. Back to building.
- That clarification raises precisely the question European governments have been asking for years: what happens when a capability essential to our defence can be restricted, modified or withdrawn through decisions taken in Washington?"
- 2 dead, 11 rescued." That was the first casualty figure many people read for the ALFA WATAN, sunk by drones in Bulgarias waters last night. It belonged to a different ship. Her crew is still missing. This morning we put 10+ open sources side by side and built one 3-page brief (attached). The sources disagreed on casualties, on distance offshore, and on who launched the drones. The brief shows every disagreement and which figure we used. At least seven governments are being briefed on these strikes. Put a wrong figure in a
- Another interesting post on the importance of AI Sandboxing, how NVIDIA does it, and how we do it.
- Your AI agents are about to become the most interesting thing your auditor asks about. The moment an agent touches your systems, it sits inside your NIS2 Article 21 perimeter. It holds credentials, takes actions and changes state in your estate. Your existing obligations on assets, access, logging and incidents apply to it as written. The question is whether you can prove it. Part 3 of our Sovereign AI series opens European Cybersecurity Month. It is built for CISOs, security architects and anyone who has to sign off on AI in a
- A sovereign AI company just joined two American startup programmes. Contradiction? No. Scrydon was accepted into NVIDIA 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 this month! For a company that sells sovereign AI to defence, government and critical infrastructure, that deserves an explanation. Here it is. Dependency is not dependence. A dependency is something you buy from a supplier. Once it is yours, you run it, and nobody has to keep agreeing for it to keep working. Dependence is when it only works for as long as someone else keeps consenting. Take the
- A sovereign AI company just joined an American startup programme. Contradiction? No. Scrydon was accepted into NVIDIA 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 this month! For a company that sells sovereign AI to defence, government and critical infrastructure, that deserves an explanation. Here it is. Dependency is not dependence. A dependency is something you buy from a supplier. Once it is yours, you run it, and nobody has to keep agreeing for it to keep working. Dependence is when it only works for as long as someone else keeps consenting. Take the
- AI safety went from AI terminators to much more real sandbox escapes. Looking forward in giving you an overview in what happened at the Frontier labs this Summer and what Scrydon is doing to counter.
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