Our team

Rhett Oudkerk Pool

FOUNDER / SECURITY EXPERT / STRATEGY

An experienced entrepreneur, active in information security and compliance for more than twenty years. Founder and shareholder of Kahuna , a respected managed security services provider. Rhett has extensive experience with fast-growing enterprises and is the lucky owner of a prestigious Deloitte Fast 50 Sustainable Growth award. With the expected exponential growth of the EOS platform, his experience is a very valuable contribution.


Jetse Sprey

FOUNDER / LEGAL / ADVISOR

Trained to become a techie, Jetse chose law over physics to become an inspiring legal advisor with blockchain law knowledge. He has twenty years of experience in all legal aspects of technology and is partner in a reputable firm. Jetse specializes in contract law, tokenization of ownership, digital governance, data protection and intellectual property.


Yannick Slenter

COMMUNITY MANAGER

Yannick is focused on our community relations. He is an early Ethereum investor and an avid cryptocurrency enthusiast. He is an expert at breaking down complex topics around cryptocurrencies and blockchain into relatable terms for cryptocurrency beginners. He has extensive experience as a community manager for a number of online and local communities. He is also regular speaker at several local cryptocurrency meetups and has been educating people about cryptocurrencies for many years.


Brian Lee

CHINESE COMMUNITY LEADER

Brian comes from Nanjing, China and was a student of International Business at Arnhem Business School in the Netherlands. He has been living in the Netherlands for more than 4 years and joined the team in May 2018. Since he joined EOS community, he has been closing the communication gap between the West and China. Brian represents EOS Amsterdam in the Chinese community and interacts with the Chinese EOS community to facilitate communication. For example, he cooperates with other Chinese Block Producers on a Youtube Channel called “WEOS”. He also writes and translates articles into Mandarin for the Chinese community. He believes healthy competition through joint cooperation in what we call ‘community’


Alex Bausch

EOS Amsterdam and Europechain Ambassador

Charismatic, energetic and results focused entrepreneur with broad experience in all aspects of international sales and business development. A dynamic achiever with an outstanding record of success in profitable sales and new business development. Analytical, lateral thinker with excellent negotiating and consultative selling skills. A proven track record in building successful companies and scaling them globally. Firm believer in partner ecosystems which aim to inspire and spawn new innovations. Substantial people management and P & L responsibility. Specialties include International Business Development, Enterprise Sales, Telco Sales, ISP Sales, Building Teams, Mobile Authentication, Cyber Security, Identity Security, Enterprise Managed Mobility, Decentralized Ledger Technology, Blockchain as a Service.


Daniel van Slochteren

Operations partner & EOS Amsterdam and Europechain ambassador

Kahuna Managing Security BV is responsible for the 7*24 operations and security monitoring of the EOS Amsterdam systems. Daniel van Slochteren is the CEO of Kahuna. Kahuna is a sister company of EOS Amsterdam Block Producer BV, 100% owned by The Lounge Capital BV.


Bas van der Lans

WordPress partner & EOS Amsterdam and Europechain ambassador

Bas is founder of WordPress agency “Van Ons”, meaning “From us” in Dutch. Bas is a strong believer in EOS as the platform to make our data “From Us” again. What WordPress is for the content management industry will the EOSIO software be for the blockchain industry. A great example of Open Source leadership. EOS Amsterdam and “Van Ons” worked on WordProof.io a WordPress plugin for the Proof of Integrity of a website.


cc32d9

CTO

cc32d9 is a senior engineer with over 20 years of experience in software and network engineering. He is also an avid contributor to the EOSIO ecosystem and is best known for his projects Chronicle and Light API, which are used by many Dapps in the ecosystem.


Marcel Knippen

EOS Amsterdam and Europechain Ambassador

Inspired by technological disruption, driven by customer benefits. In the early Internet days, he founded security provider Onsight and grew the company to over 200 employees, before it was acquired by KPN. As a serial tech-entrepreneur he founded Abibia, a block chain lab, co-founded EOS Amsterdam and Planviewer and is closely involved in several block chain, data analytics and cyber security investments. For fun he judges student IT projects at HAN University of Applied Science and he drives IT Innovation at Made in Arnhem.