I love the ingenuity of humans, not just in the technology we produce, but how it improves lives, keeps us safe and just makes the future better. To me, that’s what EY teams are about.

Adrian van Hest

EY Global Incident Response Solution Lead

Passionate cybersecurity leader. Focused on cyber transformation and incident response. Husband and father. Enthusiastic skier with considerable room to improve.

Adrian is a Senior Consulting Partner for EY Asia Pacific based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Adrian has 30 years of international business and digital experience, largely focused on cybersecurity. He has deep knowledge across the entire cybersecurity ecosystem and has led everything from strategy and transformation, through to delivery and high-profile incident response.

Currently, Adrian is focused on large-scale cyber transformation, working with alliances partners and on managed services related to data protection, security operations, threat detection and managed incident response.

Adrian is passionate about improving cybersecurity and was a founder and board member of the award-winning New Zealand Internet Task Force (NZITF) and has been appointed by successive government to the New Zealand CERT Enablement board.

Adrian has worked widely across the globe with the last 20 years focused on the Asia Pacific region, particularly Australia, China, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea.

How Adrian is shaping the future with confidence

“Securing organizations and allowing them to realize opportunities with confidence is a dynamic and challenging task, but even after twenty odd years, it still excites me. Mainly because it’s not just about the technology, but how innovative you are required to be and the people you get to help, be the staff, clients or those that benefit indirectly from what we do.”

Adrian's latest thinking

    Contact Adrian