Melanie Rieback
Co-founder CEO at Non-Extractive Capital
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMelanie Rieback is a serial founder and technology leader with over a decade of experience building mission-driven organizations at the intersection of cybersecurity, new economics, and social impact. As Co-founder and CEO of Radically Open Security she pioneered the world’s first not-for-profit security consultancy, and she now leads Nonprofit Ventures and Non-Extractive Capital to scale Steward Ownership and non-extractive finance models. A former assistant professor and PhD in computer science, she combines deep technical grounding in systems and security with practical leadership across startups, enterprise R&D, and academic teaching. Recognized repeatedly as an innovator in Europe and the Netherlands, she is equally at home running incident response teams, incubating post-growth entrepreneurs, and redesigning corporate governance. Her career includes early contributions to large-scale genomics pipelines at the MIT Human Genome Project, a detail that underscores her comfort with complex, high-stakes technical systems beyond conventional security work. Based in Amsterdam, she pairs rigorous research credentials with a rare focus on using technology and corporate structure to advance public-good outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)MSc. Computer Science, MSc. Computer Science at Delft University of TechnologyBSc. Biology and Computer Science, BSc. Biology and Computer Science at University of Miami
Dutch, English
Github Skills (21)
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communications10
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data-protection9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
radicallyopensecurity/Nonprofit-Ventures
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:534 commits, 493 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
melanierieback/NEC-Home-Small
Jul 2026 - Jul 2026
Contributions:4 pushes in 1 day
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