Martin Slijkhuis is a defence and intelligence industry advisor working at the intersection of sovereign buyers, the European defence industrial base and hybrid cloud-to-edge architecture.

As Industry Advisor for Defense and Intelligence at Microsoft he authored a national-resilience model separating cloud, data, identity and compute control planes, on zero-trust attribute-based data services and trusted execution environments. As Capture Manager for Europe he built defence, industry and operator partnerships across Norway, the Netherlands and Spain, advising Defense and Industry; as Director of Industry Solutions for Western Europe he assembled the Nordic ecosystem behind a coordinated NATO approach to joint all-domain command and control and positioned EU digital identity strategy through DG DIGIT and DG CNECT.

He entered defence at BAE Systems–IFS and is based in The Hague.