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Editor in Chief

Ernst-Jan Pfauth
Ernst-Jan is the Editor in Chief of The Next Web Blog. Next to blogging he is also a singer in a band called ‘Christina Five’. Before starting at The Next Web Blog Ernst-Jan worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations.
See his LinkedIn profile, Twitter and blog for more information.

Contributing Editors and Founders

Patrick de Laive
Patrick de Laive is a co-founder of Fleck and initiator of The Next Web Conference, Bowlr (NL and US) 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.

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.

Contributing Editors

Sjors Timmer
Sjors is a front-end web designer, currently doing his MA in Digital Media in London. In the past he has worked as lead designer for social and e-commerce sites. He is interested in the interaction between humans and technology, and the way networks are used to create new opportunities.
See his LinkedIn profile and website for more information.

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.

Jeroen Bakker
Jeroen is co-founder and CEO of both web development outfit Paragin and e-learning company Paragin. He’s involved as a co-founder in start-up Infovester, which aims to help professionals cope with information overload by harvesting, indexing and filtering the information they need in their daily job. Jeroen has a special interest in the business and start-up side of Web 2.0.
See Paragin, Remindo and Infovester for more information.

Chris Obdam
Chris is a true Apple fanatic, OpenID adept and Ruby on Rails promotor. Through his internet agency he tries to persuade people to switch from the dark side. With Holder, the internet agency he co-founded, he co-organized the Dutch Ruby On Rails conference called Ruby And Rails Amsterdam. As an OpenID adept Chris founded the first public OpenID server based in Holland.
See An Internet Agency and Holland on Rails

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

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