Ben April is the Chief Technology Officer at Farsight Security, Inc. Prior to joining Farsight, Mr. April spent eight years at Trend Micro, where he became the Americas regional manager of the forward-looking threat research team. He has presented to security conferences on five continents, covering topics like Bitcoin, NFC, operational security and infrastructure security. Mr. April has built research systems for collecting and aggregating data, from Whois and the Bitcoin block-chain to the global routing table.

After obtaining his Honours Degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, Thinus joined the Maltego development team in 2012. Since then, he has developed transforms and generated content for Maltego. He has been involved with data mining projects, designing and writing of transforms, and the development of case studies and applications for Maltego. Thinus regularly presents training on the use of Maltego and facilitates organisations around the world to integrate their own internal data.