NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

Simon Wijckmans is the CEO and co-founder of c/side, the VC-backed cybersecurity company with tools for monitoring, optimizing, and securing vulnerable browser-side scripts. Wijckmans began his career as a contractor at Microsoft before he was 18. (Previously, he had been homeschooling himself to chart his own educational path within technology and cybersecurity.)

After becoming an employee at Microsoft, he worked for four years on major projects like Microsoft Surface, Azure, and Office 365. He then moved to the security company Cloudflare, working first as a solution engineer and then in product (including as a product manager working on Page Shield). He followed that with time at Vercel and a small startup before founding c/side to address the widespread (and growing) browser supply chain cybersecurity challenge.