Experience

DINL - Digitale Infrastructuur Nederland

• Managing Director

  • Nov 2014 - Present

  Managing Director of the Digital infrastructure Association NL (DINL), a coalition of organisations representing providers of core Internet services such as colocation, networks, cloud, hosting and domain registries. Voice of this industry towards government, politics and the media. DINL's key themes are the protection of a free, open and secure Internet as the basis for the digital society and promoting the NL digital mainport as the ecosystem that drives new economic activity. DINL's activities include information sharing and advocacy, promoting excellent IT-education, building trust and transparency, and driving cooperation both within the sector as well as with other stakeholders. Show less



ECP Platform voor de InformatieSamenleving

• Netherlands
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Lead

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Member PIV (platform Internet security), Member CSA (Cyber security Alliance). Project lead for OTC (Online Trust Coalition), Anti-Abuse network,/ Abuse 2.0, anti DDOS coalition, KvI Children safe on Internet). All are PPP (Public-Private partnerships) that can be characterized as co-regulation: government, NGO's and companies. These initiatives are templates for improving cyber reslience, assurance and mitigating internet "badness". Both initiatives are increasingly being referred to as examples for state of the art ways of dealing with the risks and issues of the modern digital society. OTC is part of the roadmap "secure hard- and software "of the NL ministry of economic affairs and climate Show less



Disway Solutions

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisor en Counselor for digital strategies

  • Apr 1995 - Present

  I assist executives of cloud-, hosting- and other service providers with sharpening of- and executing their strategy. How to achieve operational excellence, how to innovate your portfolio and create compelling services, how to change your company culture to become truly lean. My both deep and wide knowledge of culture, organization, finance, marketing and sales, delivery, compliance, security and risk management, processes, service technology and automation enable me to be of value for all aspects of the company at hand. My modus operandi: quick, straight, concrete. Show less



Shurman

• Netherlands
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate, Shurman

  • Dec 2020 - Present

  Shurman is a Value-Driven Tech M&A and Financing firm based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. We serve ambitious digital technology and tech-enabled service businesses on sell-side, buy-side, and growth financing. At Shurman, we follow a value-driven mindset, a multi-disciplinary skillset, and a programmatic toolset—finding, unlocking, and realizing value. Our guiding principle for Tech M&A and Financing is that a company's actual value is not just in the numbers. We see conventional EBITDA-boosting as outdated. In our view, a transaction is only successful when the stakeholders' strategic, financial, and personal ambitions are fulfilled. Something that demands a holistic and value-driven approach and reaches far beyond conventional financial capabilities. Show less