Tom De Raedt, founder and CEO of EscherCloud, has been active in private equity for 15+ years. He has been managing numerous projects varying from area redevelopment to digital infrastructure companies. With a background in civil engineering, finance, and management, Tom thrives in solving challenges in the rapidly digitizing world. His expertise is primarily focused on high-level deal-making through a well-established network while maintaining a low profile.

A passionate technologist combining 20 years of industry experience and success delivering strategies that harness disruptive technologies and trends with cross-functional outcomes. As CTO, Kevin will lead the technology strategy and evaluate emerging digital technologies to develop and foresee future opportunities to enable more sustainable and democratised solutions.

Chris has overseen the development and deployment of several leading-edge technology platforms with leading roles in the cloud and managed services sector. Chris also sits on the advisory board for a number of leading organisations in the space, satellite, and AI sectors. He is responsible for EscherCloud’s go-to-market and works closely with our partners and vendors to help deliver our strategic plans.

With experience in financial planning and analysis both from corporate and commercial finance Andreij has a proven record of leadership in highly demanding environments. He is experienced in leading Treasury and FP&A functions for the HQ of a public company with credentials from high profile transactions: IPO, public debt issuance, private debt arrangements, managing treasury infrastructure and financial risk management.

David leads AI and HPC development at EscherCloud. Over the last 20 years, he has held roles such as CTO and Chief HPC Architect in companies within the HPC and AI industry creating some of the world’s largest HPC systems. More recently David co-founded a startup that provides an efficient HPC and AI cloud orchestration software environment for diverse workloads across various cloud platforms and architectures.

Oliviana leads the development of EscherCloud’s community and ecosystem, including the launch of the AI Lab. Formerly Head of Community at Rockstart and ING’s open innovation district Cumulus Park, Oliviana has built and scaled communities across sectors successfully bringing startups, corporates, governments and talent together to collaboratively innovate.

Rutger gained experience in the energy and private equity sector before joining EscherCloud. During his last role at Shell, he led the exploration of a global renewable heat business including developing a strategy and leading various integrated energy projects. Rutger has a background in dredging engineering and econometrics.  His passion for unlocking value from (new) sustainable technologies will be the focus in his role at EscherCloud.

Ash has 24 years of experience with cloud technologies. He has built cloud strategies for organisations worldwide, including Microsoft, AWS, Insight & Rackspace. He designed wireless networks for the Royal Air Force, working on projects like the 2010 Commonwealth Games and sites across Europe & Asia. Recently Ash has been leading the AWS SaaS Factory business in EMEA, helping enterprises across the globe use technology to innovate the solutions of tomorrow.