Summary
| Name | Age | Since | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van der Velden, Steven | 51 | 2006 | Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer |
| Nije, Mark | 46 | 2008 | Chief Financial Officer |
| Zuurbier, Martin | 48 | 2007 | Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technical Officer, Director |
| Ackermans, Willem | 52 | 2008 | Director |
| Van Sante, Yves | 47 | 2006 | Director |
| Dejager, Johan | 48 | 2006 | Director |
| De Greef, Roderick | 48 | 2008 | Director |
Biographies
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Van der Velden, Steven | Steven Van der Velden has been director since October 24, 2006 and the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since October 30, 2006. Mr. Van der Velden has experience in consultancy, logistics, real estate development, and telecommunications, e-commerce and investment management. He founded his first consultancy firm in 1983 and since then Mr. Van der Velden has started over a dozen companies. Mr. Van der Velden is involved in various Information Communication Technology ventures throughout Europe, North America and the Far East, and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of QAT Investments SA in Luxembourg. In 2000, he co-founded E-commerce Park NV, which has developed a 50,000 sq.ft. data centre and Internet hosting facility, located on top of the various fiber optic landing points in Curacao. In 1994, Mr. Van der Velden co-founded the ITA International Telemedia Association, known today as the Network for Online Commerce, and served as its first Chairman. In the same year, he co-founded InTouch Telecom SA/NV to offer a wide range of business and consumer telecom applications to the Belgian Market, and served as its CEO until the company was sold to Global TeleSystems, Inc. in 1999. From 1988 until 1992 he served as the first Managing Director of Antillephone NV. Currently he is a Director of Unicom NV. Between 1986 and 1988, Mr. Van der Velden co-headed a team of 16 consultants, which advised on and implemented a wide range of measures to balance budgets and to restructure the internal organizations of the Governments of both the Dutch Antilles and the island of Curacao. Mr. Van der Velden earned his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Rotterdam School of Management, the Netherlands, and a Master’s Degree in Law from Leiden University, the Netherlands. He splits his time between Curacao, Dutch Antilles and Brussels, Belgium. |
| Nije, Mark | Mr. Mark Nije has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Elephant Talk Communications, Inc. effective December 2008. He was General Manager Europe since January 1 2007 to December 2008, a function he held since the end of 2004 within the acquired Benoit Telecom Group. Mr. Nije has experience in project management, business development, investment management, logistics and telecommunications. Mr. Nije started as project manager and management consultant for Tebodin Consulting Engineers and Reitsma & Wertheim M&A specialists, the Netherlands. In 1990 he co-founded Logistic Management International NV (LMI), an international cargo transportation and airport handling company at the airport of Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. During those years he served as a board member and vice-chairman of the Curacao Exporters Association. From 2000-2002 Mr. Nije was co-founder and director of PickYourGifts BV, an internet start-up. In 2003 he became partner of QAT Investments SA, the Luxemburg venture capital fund, where he has been active as investment manager and/or board member in various ICT related ventures of QAT. Currently he is a non-executive board member of LMI and member of the Dutch Association of CEO’s and Directors (NCD). Mr. Nije earned his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the Rotterdam School of Management, the Netherlands, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Building Construction Management from the University of Reading, United Kingdom. |
| Zuurbier, Martin | Martin Zuurbier has been the Chief Operating Officer/Chief Technical Officer and a director since January 1, 2007. From January 2005 until January 1, 2007, Mr. Zuurbier had been the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Benoit Telecom Holding AG, a telecom service provider in Europe that was acquired by the Company on January 1, 2007. From December 1999 to December 2004, Mr. Zuurbier served as director and was the founder of Vocalis Telecom Group located in The Netherlands and Switzerland. Mr. Zuurbier was responsible for building, maintaining and operating a telecommunications network spanning eight countries in Europe, including all back-office, billing and Client Relation Management systems. From January 1995 to June 1999, Mr. Zuurbier was directly involved in the telecommunications industry and was involved in the development of new switching technology in collaboration with hardware manufacturer Dialogic, implementation of the Amsterdam Carrier Ring in 1999 with COLT Telecom BV as the launch customer, and negotiating increased capacity on behalf of various international telecommunications companies. Prior to 1995, Mr. Zuurbier was involved in the production of television commercials for the European market. |
| Ackermans, Willem | Mr. Willem Ackermans has been Director of Elephant Talk Communications, Inc. since January 1, 2007. He was Chief Financial Officer of the company till December 2008. Mr. Ackermans is also a partner in M-Ventures B.V., a Dutch based firm focusing on new business development and venture capital activities in the information technology, energy and healthcare industries in Europe. From April 2006 to December 2006, Mr. Ackermans served as an independent consultant and provided amongst others services focused on the development of certain payment systems in the Dutch healthcare sector and services generally in the energy sector. From April 2003 to April 2006, Mr. Ackermans served as Director of Corporate Development and Strategy, M&A, Regulatory Affairs, Sustainability and Environmental Affairs, Technology & Knowledge Management. From October 2001 to March 2003, Mr. Ackermans served as Chief Financial Officer of Telemedia N.V., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dutch telecommunications company Koninklijke KPN NV. From 1995 to 2001, Mr. Ackermans served in several positions with the Dutch Telecommunications Company KPN, a.o. as Corporate Treasurer and CFO KPN International. Since 1999 Mr. Ackermans served as CFO in the Joint Venture between KPN and Qwest; KPNQwest. Before 1995, Mr. Ackermans acted as Corporate Treasurer and Financial Director of the Dutch dredging company Royal Boskalis Westminster N.V. In 1983, Mr. Ackermans started his career with Amro Bank NV as Relationship Management Natural Resources. Mr. Ackermans holds a Masters degree in Engineering from the Dutch Technical University at Delft. |
| Van Sante, Yves | Yves R. Van Sante has been a director since October 24, 2006.Mr. Van Sante founded QAT Investments S.A. in 2002, where he currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer. Concurrently, Mr. Van Sante has held various Management and Board functions in companies supported by Quercus Aimer Trust Investments (“QAT”), the majority shareholder of ETCI, such as being a member of the Business Club ‘De Warande’ since 1998. In 2000, Mr. Van Sante became the Managing Director of E-port NV in Ostend, Belgium, a call centre owned by the Port of Ostend. When E-port was sold after six months to the Dutch call-centre Call-IT, Mr. Van Sante was asked to become Advisor to the Management Board of Call-IT. In 1999, Mr. Van Sante became Vice-President Business Services with GTS, a Pan European Telecom operator. In this position, Mr. Van Sante consolidated acquisitions and turned a voice Telco operator around into an IP operator. In 1994, Mr. Van Sante co-founded and became partner of InTouch Telecom, a privately owned Belgium Telco company. As its Managing Director, Mr. Sante was responsible for Business Development, Sales and Marketing. From 1987 until 1993, Mr. Van Sante served as Sales and Marketing Manager for Central Europe at 3C Communications (currently named Tele-2) in Luxemburg, where he launched Credit Card Telephony across Europe. Prior to this position, Mr. Van Sante became a Business Unit Manager of Public Telephony at Belgacom, a former Belgian owned telecom operator, where he managed a department of over 650 employees. Mr. Van Sante started his career as an Advisor at United Brokers in 1982. Mr. Van Sante studied Marketing, Communication and Commercial Management at the High School for Business Economics and Commercial Management in Ghent, Belgium in 1980. |
| Dejager, Johan | Johan Dejager has been a director since October 24, 2006. Mr. Dejager is managing director and owner of Osta Carpets, a specialized niche producer of area rugs with production plants in Belgium and a distribution center in Barcelona, and Gaverdal, a finishing plant for the carpet industry. He is also Managing Director of Ligne Pure, a company specialised in the design and manufacturing of handmade carpets for the decorator market. Mr. Dejager serves as a member of the Board of Directors of QAT Investments SA. In addition, he is a shareholder and director of Keyware, a provider of identity-related solutions and services, and of SPARNEX, an engineering company developing and industrializing DSL products for the telecom industry. Mr. Dejager is a member of the Board of Directors of FEBELTEX (the Federation of the Belgian Textile Companies). As Vice-President of the company, Mr. Dejager is in charge of the subdivision of interior textiles. Mr. Dejager holds a Bachelors degree (1981) and a Masters degree in Commercial Engineering from the University of Leuven, Belgium (1981) and an MBA from Insead Fontainebleau, France (1982). |
| De Greef, Roderick | Roderick De Greef has served on the Company’s Board of Directors since January, 2008. Mr. de Greef is the principal of Taveyanne Capital Advisers, Inc., a firm providing corporate finance consulting services. Mr. de Greef has served as the Chief Financial Officer of Cambridge Heart from October 2005 to July 2007. Mr. de Greef served as the Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Cardiac Science, Inc. from March 2001 to September 2005. From 1995 to 2001, Mr. de Greef provided corporate finance advisory services to a number of early stage companies including Cardiac Science, where he was instrumental in securing equity capital beginning in 1997, and advising on merger and acquisition activity. From 1989 to 1995, Mr. de Greef was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BioAnalogics, Inc. and International BioAnalogics, Inc., both publicly held development stage medical technology companies located in Portland, Oregon. From 1986 to 1989, Mr. de Greef was Controller and then Chief Financial Officer of publicly held Brentwood Instruments, Inc. Mr. de Greef also serves on the board of directors of Endologix, Inc., a public medical device company located in Irvine, California, and BioLife Solutions, Inc., a public life sciences company based in Bothell, Washington. |
Basic Compensation
| Name | Fiscal Year Total |
|---|---|
| Van der Velden, Steven | 1,924,000 |
| Nije, Mark | 1,117,340 |
| Zuurbier, Martin | 1,020,100 |
| Ackermans, Willem | 1,102,220 |
| Van Sante, Yves | -- |
| Dejager, Johan | -- |
| De Greef, Roderick | -- |
As Of 30 Dec 2007
Options Compensation
| Name | Options | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Van der Velden, Steven | 0 | 0 |
| Nije, Mark | 0 | 0 |
| Zuurbier, Martin | 0 | 0 |
| Ackermans, Willem | 0 | 0 |
| Van Sante, Yves | 0 | 0 |
| Dejager, Johan | 0 | 0 |
| De Greef, Roderick | 0 | 0 |
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