Dan Gericke

ShiftControl

ShiftControl offers a seamless platform for purchasing, configuring, and securing all your SaaS services in one spot, tailored for small businesses and startups. Effortlessly manage users, invoices, and security. Get ready to experience SaaS management like never before.

Co-Founder

DNG Partners

DNG Partners is a specialized consulting firm offering CXO Advisory, Software, and Cybersecurity Strategy Development to modern businesses, with a mission to empower startups and ambitious enterprises.
https://www.dng-partners.com

Director

ExpressVPN

As the Chief Technology Officer at ExpressVPN and the Kape Privacy Division, I had the pleasure of leading the technology operations and innovations for not only ExpressVPN, a premier VPN brand with an amazing success story, but also three other prominent VPN brands that were part of the group. My role was central in building and scaling engineering and operations teams, driving us towards our mission to create secure and accessible internet experiences for 7+ million users worldwide.

Key Achievements/Tasks:
- Managed and provided leadership to over 300 engineers, delivering excellence across various domains, and contributing to US$600m+ in annualized revenue with double-digit YoY growth.
- Designed and executed a forward-thinking technology strategy, pioneering deep-tech integrations, OS layer advancements, and highly-auditable systems that positioned ExpressVPN as a leader in the industry.
- Cultivated a thriving engineering culture that empowered innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.

My time at ExpressVPN allowed me to merge my passion for cybersecurity and technology with an unwavering commitment to creating products that resonate with consumers on a global scale.

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

DarkMatter & Connection Systems

As Vice President of Cyber Security Advisory, I spearheaded multiple departments, focusing on modernizing IT systems and providing unique security and innovation insights. My role was essential in the transformation of traditional systems into future-ready, scalable, and more secure infrastructures.

Key Achievements/Tasks:
- Led a significant IT modernization effort, revitalizing a 10+ year old system, positioning the organization at the forefront of cyber security awareness.
- Executed leadership and oversight of cyber security and intelligence software development, translating complex cyber intelligence operations into actionable strategies.
- Advised senior government officials on the optimal allocation of a large US$330M+ budget, directing funds towards crucial products, solutions, and third-party contracts to meet mission requirements.
- My experience at DarkMatter allowed me to blend technical proficiency with executive leadership, forging paths in security and innovation without compromising core values or mission alignment. 

Leveraging my understanding of both offensive and defensive cyber strategies, I was able to provide unparalleled insights that transcended conventional thinking in the cybersecurity realm.

Vice President, Cyber Security Advisory

CyberPoint International

Cyber Security Expert/Head of Multiple Departments

URS Corporation

Senior Manager Network Engineering

Lockheed Martin

Systems Engineer Staff

Operations & Sustainment Manager

Senior Network Engineer

Ocean Systems Engineering Corporation

Network Engineer 3

USMC

Computer System Specialist

I’ve spent the past two decades immersed in cyber security, scaling startups, and building innovative tech solutions. As the former CTO of ExpressVPN, I helped shape the company from its early days into an industry leader, ultimately driving it to a US$1 billion exit. But beyond the business milestones, what I’m most proud of is fostering engineering cultures built on trust, collaboration, and continuous learning—where teams not only deliver cutting-edge products but also celebrate their wins along the way.

Now, as the Co-Founder of ShiftControl, I’m channeling my experience in cyber security, operations, and product development into solving a critical problem: how small businesses manage IT, security, and productivity tools. ShiftControl is all about making it easier for businesses to take control of their tech infrastructure without needing an enterprise-sized IT team. I believe small businesses are the backbone of the economy, and they deserve the same level of security and efficiency that big corporations take for granted.

My career has taken me from managing complex defense operations to leading large international teams and driving consumer-focused tech innovation. Each step has reinforced my passion for breaking new ground—whether in cyber security, SaaS management, or scaling high-growth startups.

I also enjoy sharing what I’ve learned. I speak at conferences, contribute to industry discussions, and always look for ways to connect with others who are just as obsessed with tech, security, and entrepreneurship as I am. Based in Singapore, my mission remains the same: push technological boundaries and create solutions that make a real impact.

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ShiftControl is 2 years old today, it’s been quite a ride! We’ve made it past the 18 month startup death spiral and we’ve got traction, product fit, and a great roadmap! Stay tuned!

Pro tip for Aspire, add social sharing buttons to these emails!

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🚨 When a cyber incident happens, every minute counts. Incident response is the process of detecting, containing, and recovering from a security breach. It’s about being ready before something goes wrong — not scrambling after.

🧯 ShiftControl customers get a free subscription to Blackpanda IR-1 incident response. So if the worst case happens and you do get hacked, you’ll have a trusted team ready to help contain the threat and guide you through remediation.

#CyberSecurity #IncidentResponse #BreachResponse #RiskManagement #ShiftControl

This is one of the reasons ShiftControl exists. We make sure offboarded employees are actually offboarded from critical systems!  

How is your employee identity hygiene??

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🚩 If your SaaS tools aren’t keeping up, it may be time to rethink your provider. Here are five key red flags:
🔹 Frequent downtime or sluggish performance
🔹 Features missing that match your current growth
🔹 Customer support that leaves you in limbo
🔹 Security or compliance gaps you feel uneasy about
🔹 The market has moved on—better, cheaper, more powerful alternatives exist

#SaaSManagement #TechStack #SoftwareProviders #DigitalTransformation #ITStrategy

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👥 Managing groups in Google Workspace can quickly become a tangle of confusing permissions, nested memberships and shadow access if it isn’t handled properly. Groups are supposed to simplify access and collaboration—yet many teams end up spending too much time just keeping them straight.

🔧 We make it much easier. ShiftControl supports intuitive, dynamic group handling so you get:
🔹 Cleanly organised groups (by department, role or access level)
🔹 Automated membership based on user attributes like title, team or location
🔹 Visibility into who’s in which group and what they can access—reducing risk and speedy mis-assignments

#GoogleWorkspace #AccessControl #GroupManagement #SaaSManagement #ShiftControl

🔑 Privileged Access Management (PAM) is all about safeguarding the “keys to the kingdom” in your organisation—the accounts and identities that hold elevated permissions and can make big changes. Without strong PAM, these powerful accounts become prime targets for attackers.

🔧 ShiftControl supports PAM by synchronising users and groups into your SaaS services. That gives you the building blocks to:
🛡️ Use role-based access control (RBAC) with precision
👥 Manage privileged access so the right people get the right rights, at the right time
📋 Reduce risk by orchestrating how identities map to roles across your stack

#CyberSecurity #PAM #AccessControl #IdentityManagement #ShiftControl

💡 SaaS license optimization isn’t a once-a-year cleanup—it’s a daily discipline. You need to:
🔍 Audit software usage regularly—find idle seats and abandoned tools
🔧 Define digital personas by role and automate license assignments accordingly
📈 Monitor continuously—flag unused licences, adapt to changes in teams and tools

✅ If you’re looking to gain control of your SaaS spend, reduce waste and simplify licence management—check out ShiftControl.

#SaaSManagement #LicenseOptimization #CostControl #SaaSSpend #ITOperations

🧩 Managed Service Providers (MSPs) can be a great fit for companies running Microsoft environments. They’re often built around managing Microsoft 365, Azure, and related ecosystems.

But for Google Workspace shops, they’re rarely fit for purpose. Many MSPs will try to migrate customers to Microsoft rather than support Google Workspace natively — which means more friction, not less.

If your business runs on a modern, SaaS-first stack, you’ll want partners that actually meet you where you are, not where they’d rather take you.

#MSP #SaaSManagement #GoogleWorkspace #ITStrategy #BusinessOperations

✉️ DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) is one of the most important tools in keeping email trustworthy. It adds a digital signature to every outgoing message so the recipient’s server can verify that the email really came from your domain and wasn’t tampered with on the way.

💡 Why it matters:
🔹 Helps prevent attackers from spoofing your domain
🔹 Improves deliverability by signaling authenticity to mail providers
🔹 Builds trust with customers and partners who rely on your messages

#EmailSecurity #DKIM #CyberSecurity #Authentication #PhishingPrevention

📦 Just because your data lives in the cloud doesn’t mean you’re covered. Many SaaS vendors focus on platform uptime—not restoring your deleted items, corrupted files or ransomware-hit libraries.
🔍 That’s why backing up your SaaS apps (Google Workspace, Xero, etc.) is essential:
🧩 Keep versions of critical documents and accounts so you can recover fast
⚠️ Protect against human error, malicious deletion or service glitches
📉 Reduce downtime and help safeguard your reputation

🔧 On the ops side, our team built a platform that connects to your SaaS stack and ensures backups and restores are part of your defence—not an afterthought.

#SaaSSecurity #DataProtection #BackupAndRecovery #CloudStrategy #ShiftControl

Anyone that is surprised Cloudflare uses Lua and it was the cause of yesterday’s outage obviously has never done a lot of work with nginx….

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Daniël Heerkens

JH Growth Partners

Accelerate Growth in Southeast Asia : Fractional Marketing & Sales Leadership

Struggling to scale marketing and sales without feeling overwhelmed? Discover how fractional leadership provides the expertise and support you need to reach new heights in Southeast Asia – all within your budget.

We offer 3 integrated services:

1.CMO as a Service: Strategic marketing expertise on demand.

2. South East Asia Commercial Representation: Expand your reach with a seasoned Singapore-based team that assists you in business growth.

3. Customized Training: Upskill your workforce with cutting-edge marketing and sales strategies for maximum impact.

Chief Growth Officer

Fellow Digitals

Fellow Digitals is a European leader in Learning Management Systems (LMS) and intranet solutions. Established in 1997, the company has a strong international presence and a proven track record of delivering innovative, user-friendly solutions to diverse organizations. 

Fellow Digitals' AI-powered platforms are designed to optimize training and communication processes, empowering businesses to achieve their learning and development goals.

Senior Solutions Strategist South East Asia

Salamander Advisory Services - Helping technology companies realise ambitions

Salamander Advisory Services is a collective powerhouse of senior executives helping startups and venture firms unlock their full potential.

Currently helping Start-Ups as CMO as A service

Senior Associate

EGN Singapore (Executives'​ Global Network)

In the EGN Marketing Leaders peer group you get a confidential space with like-minded who can inspire you and with whom you can share best practices. We focus on strategy, implementation as well as continuous development as a leader.

Program consists of Marketing Leaders in B2B & B2C companies. 
Some well-known names: BBC,BASF,IBM, Deliveroo, Randstad, SUTD, Medtronic, Novartis, JLL, J&J, Connell, Prudential, Merck,Oracle & many more

At the meetings, we go into depth with themes such as:

- Leading the Marketing-Sales Alignment Revolution
- How to Demonstrate marketing's value to the business?
- Innovative Marketing Campaigns, Analytics and ROIs 
- Navigating the Future of Talent & Skills in Marketing
- Building Brand Resilience in the Age of Disruption (e.g. crisis management)
- Mastering the Art of Storytelling in a Hyper-Attentive World

EGN is an independent, professional network for business Executives. EGN offers confidential knowledge sharing across disciplines, industries and management levels. As a member, you can share knowledge with your peers in carefully matched groups and you have access to international business executives at the highest levels. EGN Singapore, Malaysia & Indonesia has 1000+ members.

Marketing Chair

NodeReal

NodeReal is a blockchain and web3 technology startup company founded in 2021. We are a one-stop infrastructure and solution provider that embrace the high-speed blockchain era. We aim to empower developers, innovative web3 applications, and large-scale Web2 applications to explore blockchain with the most reliable and scalable solutions and enable them to generate business opportunities.

We support the following Blockchain Ecosystem: BNB Chain, Ethereum, Aptos, Polygon, Solana, Optimism, Arbitrum,Near, Pantom,Klaytn Sui & Avalanche

At NodeReal, our mission is to support the massive adoption, growth, and long-term success of the Web3 ecosystem.

Global Marketing Director

Coda Payments

Founded in 2011, Coda Payments (www.codapayments.com) helps digital content providers monetize their products and services in more than thirty markets. Publishers of leading games like Moonton (Mobile Legends: Bang Bang), Garena (Free Fire) and Tencent (PUBG Mobile), streaming platforms like beIN and Bigo Live, apps like Tinder, and video-on-demand platforms like Viu have integrated with Coda Payments to accept payments.

Coda Payments is headquartered in Singapore with dozens of additional outposts around the world. It is backed by Apis Partners and GMO Global Payment Fund, whose strategic management company is GMO Payment Gateway, Japan’s largest online payment gateway. Coda Payments has recently been named the 28th fastest growing company in the Asia-Pacific region by the Financial Times (making it the second fastest growing fin-tech company in its region), the 8th fastest growing company in Singapore by the Straits Times, and a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum.

General Assembly

General Assembly is a private, for-profit education organization founded by CEO Jake Schwartz, Adam Pritzker, Matthew Brimer, and Brad Hargreaves in early 2011. It maintains campuses in numerous countries throughout the world to teach entrepreneurs and business professionals practical technology skills.

What I teach:

- 10 weeks Part time Digital Marketing

- DEVELOP A WINNING [DIGITAL] GO-TO MARKET STRATEGY
https://generalassemb.ly/education/develop-a-winning-digital-go-to-market-strategy/singapore/95886

- Brand Strategy Workshop
https://generalassemb.ly/education/brand-strategy-workshop/singapore/96053

- B2B DIGITAL MARKETING STRATEGIES
https://generalassemb.ly/education/b2b-digital-marketing-strategies/singapore/97733

- DEVELOPING AN INTEGRATED DIGITAL MARKETING STRATEGY
https://generalassemb.ly/education/developing-an-integrated-digital-marketing-strategy/singapore/97734

- How to launch Content Marketing
https://generalassemb.ly/education/how-to-launch-content-marketing-101

- ADVANCED CONTENT MARKETING WORKSHOP
https://generalassemb.ly/education/advanced-content-marketing-workshop

- MARKETING AUTOMATION WORKSHOP FOR STARTUPS AND SMBS
https://generalassemb.ly/education/marketing-automation-workshop-for-startups-and-smbs-online

- INTRODUCTION TO GOOGLE ANALYTICS WORKSHOP
https://generalassemb.ly/education/introduction-to-google-analytics-workshop

PERFORMANCE MARKETING FUNDAMENTALS
https://generalassemb.ly/education/performance-marketing-fundamentals

- BUSINESS STRATEGIES IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL DISRUPTION AND COVID-19
https://generalassemb.ly/education/business-strategies-in-the-age-of-digital-disruption-and-covid-19

- Bootcamp how to launch content marketing
https://generalassemb.ly/education/bootcamp-how-to-launch-content-marketing

Marketing Instructor

DutchCham (Dutch Chamber of Commerce Singapore)

ADB-DutchCham (later rebranded to DutchCham)

- Served as a Board Member and led marketing communications efforts following the 2018 merger between the Association of Dutch Business people (ADB) and the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (DutchCham).

- This merger created a unified organization under the name ADB-DutchCham, which was later streamlined to DutchCham.

Head of Marketing Communications

Nanyang Technological University

Programme Instructor for the programme “Management Development Programme”, Strategic Marketing module organized by Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Executive Education

1. Design the module: “Strategic Marketing”.
2. Prepare module outlines, lesson plans, course notes, and other relevant instructional materials.
3. Teach Strategic Marketing

Corporate Trainer

2Stallions Digital Marketing Agency

2Stallions, A Regional boutique Digital Marketing Agency with Global Reach & Local Impact.

Our APAC offices:
Singapore HQ
Malaysia (MSC Innovation status awarded by MDEC)
India
Indonesia

Why are we different?
From creative strategies to digital performance, we are your full-service partner. We use a UX-centric, Data-Driven approach to Digital Marketing that optimizes business results and propels business Growth.

Our Digital Maturity Model helps you no matter where you are in your digital journey, we are here to support you. We will work with you to build a roadmap to digital success.

Using these customized strategies, we drive your objectives and give you the ability to make data-driven decisions that propel your business growth.

Our niche Focus is:

Fintech: AXA, Ping An, Hong Leong Bank, Property Guru, UOB
CPG/ E-commerce: Dulux,Friso, Nissin Foods, Sonos, Fujifilm Astalift, Stanley
Education: ITE, International Medical University (IMU), At-Sunrice Global Chef Academy, The Winstedt School
B2B Technology: Fujifilm, Infor, Unit4, Graphisoft

and many more...

General Manager

2Stallions is a Regional Full Service Digital Award Winning Marketing agency based in Singapore, Philippines, India & Indonesia, focused on driving results for our clients.

The 2Stallions team brings a combination of European expertise and Asian market insights. Our clients are diverse – ranging from government agencies, start ups and globally recognized brands like: Axa, Bosch, Basf, Red Bull,CNN,Ping An, Royal FrieslandCampina, Wavin, InterContinental Hotel Group,Unit4, UBS,Sonos, Stanley Black & Decker.

Awards won:

Asia's Best Brand Awards by CMO Asia
2Stallions Digital Marketing Agency
 
Global Brand Excellence Awards by World Brand Congress:

Marketing Campaign Of The Year - Stanley Black & Decker
Best Use of Social Media in Marketing - Stanley Black & Decker
Marketing Communications B2B - Unit4
Digital Marketer of The Year - Daniël Heerkens 
Young Achiever of the Year - Daniël Heerkens 

Marketing Magazine's Marketing Excellence Awards
Excellence in Search Marketing - AQ Services (Finalist)

Marketing Magazine's Asia eCommerce Awards
Best Use of UI/UX Design - The Source Bulk Foods (Finalist)

SMEs Asia Awards
2Stallions Digital Marketing Agency

https://2stallions.com/

Head of Business Development

Daniël is a seasoned Marketing & Sales leader with over 15 years of experience driving growth across the Asia Pacific region (APAC). He is currently a Managing Partner at JH Growth Partners, offering CMO/Commercial representative as-a-service solutions.

Previously, Daniël served as the Global Marketing & Partnership Director at Coda Payments, a Singapore-based Fintech Unicorn. He also successfully exited his own regional boutique digital marketing agency, with offices spanning Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia. His impressive client list includes industry giants like CNN, Ping An, AXA, and UOB Kay Hian.

Beyond his hands-on experience, Daniël is passionate about empowering others. He has trained over 3,000 marketing and business leaders at esteemed institutions like General Assembly and NTU Singapore, equipping them with the skills to achieve significant business growth.

Daniël currently serves as the marketing & Communications chair of the Executives’ Global Network chapter in Singapore.

Global Director of Marketing

NodeReal is a blockchain and web3 technology startup company founded in 2021. We are a one-stop infrastructure and solution provider that embrace the high-speed blockchain era. We aim to empower developers, innovative web3 applications, and large-scale Web2 applications to explore blockchain with the most reliable and scalable solutions and enable them to generate business opportunities.

We support the following Blockchain Ecosystem: BNB Chain, Ethereum, Aptos, Polygon, Solana, Optimism, Arbitrum Nova & Avalanche

At NodeReal, our mission is to support the massive adoption, growth, and long-term success of the Web3 ecosystem.

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