I was born on February 11, 1963
in the wild city of Amsterdam.
I am rich: I have
two lovely sons, Gideon & Elmo. My two daughters Els and Marianne-Lotje are already young urban start-up
Netizens, and are hopelessly Amsterdamned.
SIDE ACTIVITIES
In October 1995 I co-founded, and now I am chairing the Cyber
Ventures foundation aiming at reconciling new media, such as Internet with environmental issues.
WRITING
I am an enthusiastic Internet columnist for Computable, and was Intermediair
columnist.
Writing is my greatest hobby.
Furthermore, I published a number of books and papers in
specialist journals - both in  and  . |
October 1999-Now:
co-investor in in iMerge incubator. 1997-1999, Manager Business Development in the KPN Telecom
BV business unit “Internet Services”. Babies: Het Net, IP fax/IP telephony trials,
formation of business consortium with Ministry of Economic Affairs for
Internet2 (GigaPort), and
NetCommerce & certificate services.
1995-1997: senior consultant and project
manager for the Strategy & Business Development department of KPN Telecom BV, focussing on
international multimedia and internet developments.
1992-1995: project leader at KPN Research with regard to multimedia projects.
E.g.,
from April 1992 to March 1993 I was task leader within the IMS1 EURESCOM project, specifying a pan-European multimedia
teleservice.
1989-1992: system analyst for Informatics Project Management in
Hoofddorp, specialised in travel agency automation. To broaden my scope, I joined Cap Gemini Pandata/Multimedia Systems in
1990 and participated
as a system programmer and information analyst in the development of OCTOPUS - the
criminal investigation system of the Dutch police's criminal investigation departments. |
December 18, 1998: LIVE
oration as Professor eBusiness/Multimedia at the Open University Netherlands. Titled: The InterVersity as a Web Assisted Knowledge Pub for the Higher
Educated. 1998-2004: part-time professor multimedia
at the Open University Netherlands in Heerlen, department
Computer Science. I want to set up an international InterVersity. A first step is a
Course Shop for the OUN.
1994-1998: Ph.D. research at Delft
University of Technology focussing on the business viability of
multimedia marketing systems.
  
 
1989: postdoctoral course in Information Analysis and Policy at the
Academy of Informatics/University of Utrecht.
1984-1987: This after a study at the Faculty of
Psychology at the Universiteit of Amsterdam,
with special interest in Social Science Informatics.
1975-1981: Montessori
Lyceum Amsterdam |
