Board of directors

Luc De Vos

Arkafund
Luc De Vos pioneered the Internet in Belgium. He was founder of the EUnet group as the first commercial Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Belgium and the first pan-European large ISP. Luc De Vos has been involved as entrepreneur, in one way or another, in the creation or development of about 40 companies. In more than half of that number he was founder or co-founder, in almost all of them director and in one third of them he was also part of the management team as CEO or CFO. This qualifies him as a serial entrepreneur. Luc is chairman of the board at Arkafund.

Jan Vanhoyweghen

Arkafund
Jan is an accomplished Managing Director with proven ability in transforming ideas into business enterprises. He has a strong background in finance and taxes, a sound understanding of IT and a talent for creating strategies and motivating people in an eclectic assortment of business ventures. Jan is investment advisor at Arkafund.

Niko Nelissen

Oxynade
Niko is founder of Oxynade and CEO. Niko is also co-founder and he was CTO at Hostbasket (acquired by Telenet, 2008) and he co-founded Q-layer (VC funded technology company, acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2009). Niko brings years of experience in internet technology, web 2.0 concepts and searching techniques to the company.

Hans Nissens

Oxynade
Hans is founder of Oxynade and Managing Partner. Prior to Oxynade, he built "cultuurweb.be" (Culture web) and the "cultuurdatabank.be" (Cultural database in Belgium), managing a team and a comprehensive network of partners. Cultuurweb.be and cultuurdatabank.be are initiatives of the Flemish government to map and support all cultural initiatives in Flanders, Belgium. Hans brings in-depth cultural knowledge to the company, required to build the most complete inventory of events in the world.