THE NEXT CLOUD - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Marketing Communications Specialist
- Marketing Manager
Dominique is a marketing communications specialist with almost a decade of experience in ICT, both as marketing manager for a CSP and on the creative side. With her specific knowledge and experience with cloud communications, SIP/VoIP, mobile and internet she recently joined our team as a freelancer.
Dominique combines a strong ‘getting things done' mentality with an eye for detail, and is able to translate complex solutions into catchy stories and effective marketing campaigns and programs.
Optimizing sales is what I do, and I have done that successfully across industries as an executive, as a coach, and as an entrepreneur. Drawing on years of practical, hands-on experience, I partner with large-scale corporations and established companies to drive better business outcomes and reach targets that may have seemed out of reach.
I have had a passion for devising, incubating, and guiding new, innovative business models through my career, and I am also an active startup investor.
After his marketing studies HP has become an authority on telecom in The Netherlands, working with all the leading ICT publishers in the past 15…
In over a decade as strategist and innovator at KPN, the Dutch telecom incumbent, Jan Rijk fathered such projects as the API Store and the IoT Academy, connecting all the corporate silos with a natural ease. Jan Rijk is not only an experienced professional, but also a creative, out-of-the-box thinker who can shift paradigms in order to create value propositions for a company.
Having grown up in a rural area, Jan Rijk has a weak spot for anything Agri & Food. Although educated in Business Administration, Economics, Philosophy and Sociology, he remained true to the geek part within himself. He truly believes we could create a world of abundance with new technology. There is one prerequisite, the only way forward to be able to do so, is sharing. Be open but do not give away corporate secrets. This is exactly the sweet spot where APIs kick in.
Jan Rijk has been an API evangelist within telco space for years, combining OTT (over the top) and OTN (over the network). Showing the way forward to such a revised telco environment in 2025 is his personal ambition.
Kay has been a submarine navigator, a seaman on trading ships, shipbuilder, a sports teacher, and passioned software engineer for many years before he became…
Laila has been a PA, organizer and logistics planner for years, for ICT companies, industry platforms like the Cloud Communications Alliance, and APIdays Amsterdam. As a people first person she loves to make sure things run smoothly and people are happy.
When not organising tech events, Laila runs a family of 4 kids, 2 dogs and 2 cats in Amsterdam.
Marc Bos an enthusiastic and motivated entrepreneur and (mountain)biker. Originally from the Netherlands, Marc has lived in Belgium for the last 11 years. He is the founder of two online companies in the Netherlands and watched them grow with a great, creative and highly qualified team. He has extensive experience in a variety of markets as an interim professional and as an investor, however his intellectual curiosity lies in technical start-ups, innovations and new technologies.
I think, "we" can and must invest more and faster in new technology. My passion lies in helping companies digitize, innovate and grow and I truly believe this can be done faster if companies work together based on the "chain" concept and thinking global.
Job Titles:
- Partner at Mistletoe, Inc
Mark Castleman is a Partner at Mistletoe, Inc., a global impact investment fund founded by Taizo Son, where he focuses on supporting founders and transformational ideas and companies with capital and operational expertise. He is also a Partner at Capital Factory, the central US's most active startup fund, incubator, and accelerator located in Austin, Texas.
Mark was previously SVP of Strategy as well as an investor, Board Member at CerebriAI, an M12 (Microsoft Ventures) backed company. Other prior roles include VP of Corporate Strategy at Avaya and EIR at Bell Labs/Nokia, where he founded Future X Labs while even earlier Mark founded four different startup companies, raised funds for them and sold two. Mark resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and was formerly a long-time resident of Austin, Texas where he studied Architecture, and is a graduate of the University of Texas, Austin.
Job Titles:
- Contextual Communications
Rob combines a strong technical and commercial IT background with 15 years business communications experience as an entrepreneur, consultant, trainer/coach and analyst. His heart is in innovation and growth, working with scaleups and corporates to bring new technologies to market.
After studying Computer Science at Delft University of Technology Rob (co-)founded various technology companies, including one of the first Dutch hosted voice providers (before cloud became the new normal), researched the hosted voice market as it matured, led the growth of the Cloud Communications Alliance into Europe, consulted for various technology providers and telcos on G2M of innovative technologies like cloud and UCaaS, and helped strategize and commercialize the CPaaS in one of the first ever telco API Stores at KPN New Business.
Rob believes that with today's widespread availability of connectivity, compute power and advanced personal devices, we owe it to ourselves to put people first again.
Tony Jamous is the former president of Nexmo, a Vonage Company. He joined Vonage as part of Vonage's acquisition of Nexmo, Inc. in June 2016. While at Vonage, Mr. Jamous focused on external relations including public market investors and industry analysts.
The former founder of Nexmo, Mr. Jamous has more than 15 years of experience in building high growth technology businesses with a focus on developers' platforms . As an early stage angel investor, Mr. Jamous focuses on software platforms including APIs, PAAS and IAAS models.
Mr. Jamous holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Grenoble Institute of Technology in France and an M.B.A from the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland (IMD), with a focus on leadership development and organizational behavior.
Valentina's biggest passion has always been inspiring, engaging and connecting people.
After obtaining a Master in Spanish Language and Hispanic Literature at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, she started her career in the tech industry, helping international companies develop effective communication strategies, build vibrant communities and plan successful events. She is currently working as a Global Community Manager at Sketch and freelancing as event manager for Apiology.