Pieter Knook

I am Chairman at LINX - the largest, solely member-run Internet exchange in the World, with over 900 network ASNs, from 80 countries, connected to one or more of the seven global interconnection points. I am chairman of Altitude Angel, an aviation technology company enabling the safe integration and use of fully autonomous drones into global airspace. I am on the board of Telenor ASA which has 114BNOK in revenue, operates in 8 markets with 186m subscribers. I am on the board of Alpha10X an AI platform that predicts the future asset value of technologies and matches the most promising start-ups world-wide, with financial and corporate investors. I am an advisor to Seven2 (formerly APAX) France. I was on the board of directors of Broad Horizon a Microsoft Partner in NW Europe, Pulsant a UK hybrid cloud provider, TDC, the leading Danish provider of communications solutions, Coromatic an EQT backed data centre construction company, Bullitt Group a UK rugged device maker, MTI a storage reseller, First Utility in the UK and Matillion a big data tools company. I spent 2½ years building up a new software services venture for Vodafone Group and launching Vodafone 360. I was on the Strategy Board, the Marketing Board, the CEO Council, the Group Marketing Leadership team and also on the Ventures Board. Before Vodafone I spent 18 years at Microsoft ending up as one of the top 25 executives. I traversed technical, sales, marketing and business management roles across 3 different organizations including several start-ups. In my last role I took a struggling business and grew revenue at more than 40% a year and developed a new platform business selling more than 20m units a year.