iWelcome’s founders and management team
With over 100 years of relevant experience and proven track-records in leading software and service companies, iWelcome's leadership team today drives .
CEO | Founder
As serial entrepreneur Danny has over 21 years of international experience in founding, building and managing ICT companies within the Identity & Access Management, Security and e-commerce arena.
After helming Everett (now PwC) towards becoming the leading specialist consultancy and systems integrator in the EMEA Identity market, Danny is now driving iWelcome towards becoming the IDaaS platform of choice for leading European brands and enterprises.
Prior to Everett, Danny was a director at the web application developer Wisdom, where he was responsible for creating the group’s international business strategy. Danny's passion lies in transforming creativity and vision into practical solutions and business success.
CTO
Jordi has worked in the Identity & Access Management, portal and security space for over 15 years, playing pivotal roles in successfully delivering IAM solutions for international companies across the EMEA region.
He brings his extensive experience into iWelcome by working on daily basis with iWelcome’s product management, architecture and platform development teams.It is his drive to design, develop and deliver iWelcome’s scalable, secure robust and feature rich IDAAS platform.
He started his career as a Unix and network engineer, initially building mission critical infrastructures and later Java based web, application and portal platforms for telco’s & ISP’s.
VP Business Development
Maarten has more than 15 years of sales and business management experience in Identity & Access Management. He is passionate about the value of iWelcome’s IDAAS solution and enjoys working closely with iWelcome’s customers, the analyst community and iWelcome’s sales, consulting & technology partners.
Before joining iWelcome, Maarten co-founded BHOLD, the world’s leading role-based access control software – a technology that was later acquired by Microsoft. Prior to his career in Identity Management, Maarten worked at Fokker Aircraft and Exact Software.
He holds a degree in Econometrics from the Free University of Amsterdam.
Senior Advisor
Marco Venuti has a rich history in Identity and Access Management and is skilled in translating business strategy and vision into digital solutions.
Prior to joining iWelcome, he was the CTO for Identity Governance solutions at IBM, where he started in 2014 through the acquisition of CrossIdeas. At CrossIdeas he used to be Co-Founder and Vice President of Enablement. Marco served Novell before that, and ultimately became the Tech Sales Director for Novell's Identity & Security Management business in Italy.
Furthermore, Marco served Cambridge Technology Partners as a Senior Manager. In his early days, he worked for the Logica Group and he holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy.
COO
Aldo joined iWelcome in April 2019 as Managing Director and Chief Operations Officer. He has started his career in the ICT and Services industry back in 1994 after he finished his Master’s in Management at Nijenrode University.
He has held several leadership positions at ICL, Getronics, ADP, Total Specific Solutions, and Unit4 amongst others.
Aldo is passionate to make iWelcome the scalable and leading Identity and Access Management product for clients where security and data protection matter and make customers run their business most efficiently and secure with the iWelcome
Boardmember | Investor
Patrick has acted as a venture capitalist since 1997. He is the founder of Newion Investments. After completing his studies in Aerospace Engineering in Delft, Patrick jointly founded his first IT company and later joined N.V. NOM in Groningen as a venture capitalist.
As an active Board member, Patrick serves or served many companies like Oxxio, LeanApps, Q-go, Oxynade, CustomerGauge and Collibra to name but a few.
Boardmember | Investor
Mathijs Robbens is co-founder and managing partner of Connected Capital, a growth capital investor focused on B2B software solutions.
He studied Physics at Delft University of Technology and obtained his MBA degree from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker scholar.
Mathijs brings over 20 years of experience with Bain&Company where he was a partner advising European clients in Telecom, ICT and Banking on growth strategy, innovation, merger integration and operational improvement.
Whilst at Bain, Mathijs advised a broad range of Private Equity investors on Telecom and e-Commerce transactions.
Boardmember | Investor
Boardmember | Investor Christian Knott is Principal and Head of Finance at Capnamic Ventures. Capnamic invests in digital B2B companies with a strong focus on tech driven business models.
Christian holds a Master of Science in International Business and Entrepreneurship from HHL Leipzig. Christian worked for 4 years at High-Tech Gruenderfonds, a public-private-partnership forming the largest early stage investor in Germany.
He was responsible for the financials of 80 portfolio companies from various sectors. At Capnamic, Christian is responsible for six investments including LeanIX GmbH and Staffbase GmbH.
Boardmember | Investor
Ton has over 27 years of experience in the telecommunications, IT and media industry. He served as General Counsel Europe of Liberty Global Inc. and as board member at the various subsidiaries and affiliates.
Prior to Liberty Global Ton was senior lawyer for KPN. Ton received the “European General Counsel of the Year 2003” award from BlueChip
Since 2012 his involvement with Filsa has seen him investing in and advising young businesses in the cleantech, telecom, and ICT sectors.
He is also associated partner at Improved Corporate Finance.
Website Filsa
VP Customer Success
Menno has over 15 years of experience in the Identity & Access Management and Security landscape. He held several leadership positions in development, sales and services by working in the International landscape with both local- and global top-500 companies. As an entrepeneur he developed his company ESSC, specialized in ‘Identity Services’, which was succesfully acquired by Nixu Oyj in 2017.
As an International professional Menno’s focus has always been ‘value driven’, for customers and partners. Developing and improving business models that both answer the customer’s and supplier’s requirements is one of his specialties.
He holds a degree in Economics, Law and Marketing from the University of Amsterdam.
CFO
Marco brings an extensive experience in the field of Finance and commercial management. During the years he gained a strong knowledge of the Technology, Telecom and IT industry.
He started his career with KPMG and joined after a view years Level 3 Communications (nowadays CenturyLink). After this he positioned several international positions at small medium enterprises but also the large enterprises like Vodafone.
Since February of this year he joined iWelcome as our Finance Director.
