AMS-IX B.V.

Job Witteman, Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Witteman has been Chief Executive Officer of the AMS-IX Company since it was formed in 2000. In that capacity he founded and is on the management board of Euro-IX a platform for European Internet exchanges. Before Mr. Witteman joined AMS-IX, he was a founding board member of the AMS-IX Association that was formed in 1997.

Prior to joining AMS-IX he was Senior Marketing Executive with UPC (Liberty/UCG) and GlobalOne/France Telecom, for both companies he initiated the (European) Internet Service portfolio.

Mr. Witteman was involved in the set-up of the first commercial pan-European ISP EUnet prior to that. He holds a Masters degree in Computational Linguistics from Amsterdam University.

Henk Steenman, Chief Technical Officer

Henk Steenman joined AMS-IX in 2001 when the AMS-IX Association decided to insource the technical management of the Exchange to the AMS-IX BV.  Before he joined AMS-IX as CTO Mr. Steenman had already been involved with AMS-IX as board member and chair of the AMS-IX Association.

Prior to working at AMS-IX Mr. Steenman was Director "Internetworking Center of Expertise (ICoE) at AT&T. In this role he was responsible for the ICoE budget, 9 team members and a lab environment. Prior to his function as Director ICoE Mr. Steenman worked as a Senior Network Architect for AT&T.Before working at AT&T Mr. Steenman has worked at the Network Operations Center of SARA (1998 -1995) and as Manager Network Services at SURFnet BV.

Mr. Steenman studied Astrophysics, Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Amsterdam and holds a bachelor degree in Marine Engineering.

Cara Mascini, Chief Marketing Officer

Cara Mascini joined the company in 2003 and is responsible for the initial set up of the AMS-IX marketing department and has been responsible for executing the vision of the company in the commercial discipline since then.

Before joining AMS-IX Mrs. Mascini was a Senior Management Consultant with LogicaCMG Consulting (previously DDV Consulting) for 5 years. Prior to DDV Mrs. Mascini was employed by Global One in the role of Sales Manager and before that by France Telecom in the role of Product Manager Network Services.

Mrs. Mascini holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology and Telecommunications Engineering from the Utrecht Polytechnic University, plus a Bachelor degree in Marketing Management from the Institute of Business Science (NIMA-B). She is currently following an executive-MBA program at TiasNimbas Business School.

Marco Bakker, Chief Financial Officer

Marco Bakker joined AMS-IX in 2007 as Financial Officer, he is responsible for the finance department and human resources. Next to that he holds the position as secretary of the AMS-IX board.
 
Marco Bakker started his career as a consultant controller and analyst for several companies like Deutsche Post/Danzas (express/logistics company), Renault Netherlands (importer of Renault cars), and Keesing (magazines publisher). Before he started working for AMS-IX, he worked as financial controller at Statkraft Markets, which is Europe’s largest renewable energy company. Before that he worked several years as financial controller of the holding company Teleconcept, a European multimedia company, where he helped working towards the sale of parts of the company.
 
After secondary school Mr. Bakker started his career but decided later to start studying again. He studied at Hogeschool InHolland in Amsterdam and is currently writing his thesis to become Bachelor in Economics (B Ec).