Summary
Joost Impink is a CFO and Clinical Assistant Professor with 11+ years blending academic research in accounting and auditing with hands-on leadership of a security-focused software company. At Tera Insights he helps drive tiCrypt, a CMMC 2.0 and NIST 800-171–compliant platform trusted by major research institutions for secure CUI storage, sharing, and processing. In the classroom he teaches cost and managerial accounting alongside data analytics tools like SAS and Python, bridging rigorous theory with practical data skills. His background spans from econometrics and tax law to PhD-level capital markets research, giving him a rare mix of technical, regulatory, and financial expertise. Notably, he oversees product features like secure VM clusters, blockchain audit tooling, and upcoming HPC capabilities, positioning him at the intersection of compliance, high-performance computing, and applied research.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Economics and Business, PhD, Economics and Business at University of Groningen
Master, Econometrics, Master, Econometrics at Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam)