Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization LynkState
Location Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Remco van Mook is currently director of interconnection at Equinix, where he looks after the company's global interconnection strategy as well as the company's Internet Exchanges. As part of that position, he gets involved with all sides of the company - from datacenter engineering, network architecture and legal to marketing, corporate
development and M&A activities.
He was CTO of NDIX (Nederlands Duitse Internet Exchange), responsible for architecture and technical strategy, from 2000 until 2009. NDIX was the first Internet Exchange spanning across an international border, with the intention to draw more networks to the area promoting regional
development. NDIX has evolved into an exchange platform connecting a diverse range of companies across a multitude of cities in the East of the Netherlands and the states of Nordrhein/Westfalen and Niedersachsen in Germany.
During that same time, he was founder and co-MD of Virtu, a Dutch datacenter company that got accolades for being one of the fastest growing technology companies in the Netherlands for three consecutive years. After he sold Virtu to Equinix in 2008, he was country manager for Equinix in the Netherlands for the remainder of that year.
He is an active contributor to the European Association of Internet Exchanges, EURO-IX, involving himself mostly with network design challenges, the European datacenter market and regulatory affairs. He is co-author of a few RFCs, including RFC 5452, to upgrade the security of
current DNS (non-DNSSEC) implementations against Kaminsky-style attacks and the widely used prank-RFC 2322.
He is a regular speaker at conferences and RIPE meetings and advisor to various government organisations on Internet-related affairs. He is also currently serving as the co-chair of the Connect Working Group within the RIPE community.
When Remco is not sitting on a plane, attending conferences or taking over the world, he lives near Deventer, the Netherlands with his wife, two daughters and two cats.
