Bart Vastenburg
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| Country: | Netherlands |
| LinkedIn: |  [Bart Vastenburg Bart Vastenburg]
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Bart Vastenburg is the Owner at PROA IT Services, the Managing Director at Smart-Link M2M and a Board Member at Stichting Vrienden Zonnehuizen Jeugd & Kind.
Career History[edit | edit source]
Mr. Vastenburg served as member of the Management Team of SIDN, the global operator for the .NL top-level domain on the Internet between 2003-2008. He headed the Marketing, Communications, New Business and Legal teams, driving the company's strategy, commercial development, and public & international affairs. Amongst others, he was responsible for the introduction of enum.nl in the Netherlands.
Before joining SIDN in January 2003, Bart served as Strategy Consultant/Interim Counsel at Melexis Corp, a blue chip multi-national company. He was responsible for the development of the strategy and the separation for their Dutch subsidiary. Previously Bart served at UPC, the largest Pan-European multi-media cable company. As Programme Manager (Corporate Development) he was responsible for the separation of the group's B-2-B telecom carrier activities in the Benelux, listed under the name of Priority Telecom. Prior roles within the UPC group have included Secretary to the Executive Board and Senior Legal & Regulatory Counsel for UPC Netherlands.
He began his career in 1997 as the General Counsel of Wanadoo (France Telecom) / EuroNet Internet, one of the leading ISP’s in the Benelux.
Between 2004 and 2009 Bart served as a member of the ICANN ccNSO council [1], the Budget Advisory Committee, as well as various other ICANN working groups. He was also a member of various working groups of the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries CENTR ( [2] ). Furthermore he was member of the non-executive Editorial Board of DomJur [3]. He also frequently lectures at Internet forums and conferences.
Bart obtained his bachelor degree in Law at the University of Leiden (the Netherlands). After having attended the University Complutense de Madrid (Spain) in 1995 and having completed the Foreign Lawyer's Course, at Cambridge University (UK) in 1996, he graduated from Leiden University (J.D., 1998). In 2004 he successfully completed the executive post-graduate program in Technology Law, Grotius Institute (the Netherlands), and obtained an MBA degree at London Business School in 2007.
Currently Bart is MD of Smart-Link M2M, based in Amsterdam.
He is also founder and owner of PROA IT Services, based in Barcelona.
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Affiliations: SIDN Location: The Netherlands