Team
Editor in Chief
Zee M Kane
Co-founder of London based marketing agency WeDoCreative, specializing in the design, launch and marketing of online products & services. He is also a professional Tech Writer, Design Connoisseur, Social Media Junkie & Web Application devotee
Follow Zee on Twitter and Friendfeed or see his Blog for more information.
Founders / editors
Patrick de Laive
Patrick de Laive is initiator of The Next Web Conference, Bowlr and OpenCoffee Amsterdam. He graduated with a Masters Degree in Economics in December 2004 at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
See his LinkedIn profile and Blog for more information.
Arjen Schat
Arjen Schat is talented developer, project manager and one of the founders of the Next Web blog. He has focus and overview and is capable of examining and analyzing companies and technologies on their feasibility and scalability.
See his LinkedIn profile for more information.
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten is well known as one of the first Dutch Successful Serial Internet Entrepreneurs. Boris has a creative mind, innovative ideas and a large network and he likes to write about both current events and upcoming technologies.
See his LinkedIn profile and Blog for more information.
Martin Bryant
Martin Bryant is based in Manchester, UK. A co-founder of the city’s monthly Social Media Cafe events and award-winning blogger, he trains young people in broadcast and social media skills and produces digital media in the education sector. His main interests are developments in the social web that relate to the mobile and music industries.
See his Twitter, Blog, FriendFeed for more information.
Alex Wilhelm
Alex Wilhelm is a Chicago-based technology blogger and entrepreneur. He has worked for a number of technology companies in recent years, and has a particular interest in watching the social web monetize. Follow Alex on Twitter, or on Facebook. You can reach Alex via email at alex@thenextweb.com
James is a London based technology blogger and Editor of The Next Web UK. Working for UK online advertising agency CheezeDMG, James has a strong passion for start ups, social media, apps and the web community. He can be found writing for his personal, company and of course TNW UK blogs. Follow him via Twitter and Facebook.
Ralf Rottmann
Ralf Rottmann is a serial entrepreneur from Germany focussing on mobile business strategies, social media and social networks. He successfully sold his last business to Alcatel-Lucent. Ralf loves to create and grow stuff.
See his LinkedIn profile and Blog for more information or find him on Twitter at @24z .
A leading innovator in the IT Outsourcing industry, Tim is often on the move but can be regularly found in Manchester and London, UK. His focus is on social and mobile technologies but given half a chance he’ll try to sneak music or football into his blog-posts. Tim can be found at One Greener Day and you can also follow @timdifford on Twitter.
Kim Heras is a Sydney-based technology writer and entrepreneur. His passions include the Australian startup industry, innovation and the web as an enabler of change. All 3 are combined at his latest startup – OneEyeDeer You can follow Kim on twitter – @kimheras
Contributing Editors
David Petherick
David is a Scottish entrepreneur who has created a number of companies in language and business intelligence since 1993 including NewsBase and Clarocada. Described by the BBC as the world’s first Digital Biographer, he advises, blogs and speaks on topics related to online visibility, particularly in Social Media. He speaks Russian and Spanish, and often wears the Kilt.
Follow David on Twitter or see his LinkedIn profile and Blog for more information.
Robert Gaal
Robert Gaal is an all-round webdeveloper and blogger. He founded the largest Dutch Web 2.0 weblog and is also co-founder of Wakoopa, a social network for software users. Robert also hosts the Geek Dinner Amsterdam, and is involved in open-source efforts such as The Roomware Project.
See his LinkedIn profile and Blog for more information.
Joop Dorresteijn
Joop is writing to us from Seoul, South-Korea. Besides sniffing around for the latest LG and Samsung innovations, he reports from the emerging start ups from this country. He also works with new media for ING Life, the multinational insurance firm from the Netherlands.
Want to see more? See his HDR pictures from Korea and subscribe to his Twitter account here.
Martin Kloos
Martin works at a large consulting organization in the Netherlands as Web strategy consultant and evangelist. He studied information studies at the University of Amsterdam, conducting research on the effects of social software on knowledge management. Being passionate about almost everything evolved in Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0.
See his LinkedIn profile and website for more information.
Eric Bun
Eric is a business innovation consultant at a large management consulting firm in the Netherlands. He helps organizations defining their web and e-business strategies, deploying social innovation and aligning business innovation to strategic objectives. Eric is graduated at the TU Delft on the subject of managing Communities of Practice in 2007. He has interest in deploying new (e-)businesses and is happy to be involved in relating topics such as co-creation, brand hijacking, e-marketing and innovation strategies.
See his LinkedIn and his personal blog
Mark Schiefelbein
Mark is founder of agilician, an Amsterdam-based consultancy that unlocks startup growth. He has advised numerous startups on questions involving strategy, positioning, roadmap, process and team. He previously held management positions at startups across Europe including Backbase and Tridion.
See his LinkedIn and agilician
Simone Brummelhuis
Simone worked as a successful lawyer before becoming an entrepreneur by setting up her own B2B publishing company Brummsbooks. Thereafter as co-owner and managing director IENS she developed this start-up into the no. 1 user generated content database publisher of restaurant guides in The Netherlands (online and offline). With the Europeanmuseumguide.com, she intends to do the same.
See her LinkedIn for more information about Simone
Peter Evers
Dutchman Peter Evers works as a Mobile Executive at the London-based company Unanimis. He writes about his views on the latest developments in mobile technology and mobile marketing.
Follow Peter on Twitter or see his LinkedIn and Blog for more information.
Anne Helmond
Anne is a New Media Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. She graduated on software-engine relations in the blogosphere and continues her research as an analyst-designer in the newly found Digital Methods Initiative of the University of Amsterdam. Anne is also a freelance photographer for various Dutch media including VPRO 3voor12.
Follow Anne on Twitter or see her Blog for more information.
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