Member Directory
Entrepreneur, innovator and strategic builder, passionate about putting people at the center and helping organizations turn data into insight, insight into better decisions, and better decisions into real business impact at every level of the organization from engineering and operations to the C-suite. My work is centered on data, AI, automation and actionable observability, helping people and org
Hugo Braam is the co-founder and CEO of Virtuagym, an Amsterdam-based company that makes all-in-one coaching, management and engagement software for gyms, fitness businesses and the corporate health market. Before starting Virtuagym in 2008, Hugo worked as an intellectual property lawyer. He launched the company as a consumer fitness app and later moved it to business-to-business (B2B) software fo
Arjan Herskamp is founder and CEO of Mydatafactory in Meppel, Netherlands. The company builds Mydatamatcher, an AI solution that automates quote and tender processes for distributors by matching requested products to their own catalog. Arjan has also led Calago, a firm of product information management experts, and has a background in product data work, including the Akeneo platform. He recently p
Mike Strives is the founder and CEO of CopyPaste Lab, a product studio that builds and scales SaaS products using reusable code templates, AI tools and repeatable marketing playbooks. Mike founded Upvoty, a user feedback tool with feature voting, created the Zero to SaaS course and community, and has built software products as a solo founder since 2010. He now coaches early-stage SaaS founders on
Hans van Rijnswoud is the CEO of Adver-Online and HROffice, based in Heemstede, which build recruitment marketing and HR software, including an applicant tracking system, job posting tools and careers websites for HR professionals and recruiters. Hans founded Adver-Online in 2002 and has run HROffice since 2009, building an HR platform that is sold through partners. He is also involved with Aipiph
Rutger Peters is co-founder of Threading Needles and founder and CEO of Gynzy, an online education company he started in 2009 that makes classroom software for schools. Rutger co-founded GameGate.com in 1998 and the internet games company Zylom in 2001. He later served as co-CEO of GameHouse and joined the supervisory board of Amsterdam fitness software company Virtuagym. He builds with AI tools s
Demian Voorhagen is the CEO and co-founder of Mirava, an Amsterdam-based tool that helps mobile app teams set and automate per-country pricing across iOS, Android and the web. Demian has worked as a founder and growth strategist with B2C subscription apps, has two exits behind him, and writes about regional app store pricing for RevenueCat. He also invests as an angel in mobile apps, SaaS and AI t
Laurentiu JIGA is the Founder and CEO of Generatik, a platform that lets brands check mall availability and book indoor advertising campaigns in real time, starting with shopping centers in Romania. Before Generatik, Laurentiu founded Brand Management and spent about two decades building it into a national indoor advertising company in Romania, where he served as CEE Managing Director. With Genera
Cristian Frunze is the founder of Ken, which runs done-for-you email and LinkedIn outreach for B2B companies and handles lists, copy, deliverability and sending on its own platform. Before Ken, Cristian built Smart Course, an eLearning platform in Romania that reached 50,000 students by the time he was 16. He started Ken by writing Python software to automate outbound, and ran it as an agency befo
