Bart Vastenburg


Country:	Netherlands
LinkedIn:	[Bart Vastenburg Bart Vastenburg]
Twitter:	@bartvast

Bart Vastenburg Is a member of the Management Team of [SIDN] ( [1] ), the global operator for the .NL top-level domain on the Internet. He heads the Marketing, Communications, New Business and Legal teams, which look after the company's strategy, commercial development, and public & international affairs. Amongst others, he is responsible for the introduction of [2] 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.

Currently Bart serves as a member of the ICANN ccNSO council [3], the Budget Advisory Committee, as well as various other ICANN working groups. He is also a member of various working groups of the Council of European National Top-Level Domain Registries CENTR ( [4] ). Furthermore he is member of the non-executive Editorial Board of DomJur [5]. 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). Currently, he is reading for his Executive MBA degree (2007) at London Business School. Bart is fluent in English, Dutch and Spanish. He has a working knowledge of German.

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Affiliations: SIDN Location: The Netherlands