As well as Chair of LINX Pieter Knook is also Chairman of Broad Horizon, a Benelux and Scandinavian Cloud provider of application and cloud hosting services and Chairman of Altitude Angel, an aviation technology company enabling the safe integration and use of fully autonomous drones into global airspace. Pieter also serves on the board of Telenor, Alpha10X and Bio-Key. He is also an advisor to HIG Europe, and an angel investor through Cambridge Angels.

Pieter has considerable board level experience over many years, both in the UK and internationally, previously serving as director of Coromatic, TDC and Bullit among others. His executive career includes Vodafone where he served on the Strategy Board, the Marketing Board, the CEO Council, the Group Marketing Leadership team and the Ventures Board.

Before Vodafone Pieter spent 18 years at Microsoft ending up as one of the top 25 executives. He traversed technical, sales, marketing and business management roles across three different organisations including several start-ups.

Steve is an experienced entrepreneur, non-executive director and CTO – currently rolling out full fibre in Private Equity backed Brsk, a non-exec at IDNet and ISPA (the Internet Service Provider Association).  At Brsk he manages multiple technical teams and multi-million pound annual budgets.  Previously, he sold and integrated WarwickNet into Glide – the UK’s leading Student Wifi service provider.

Steve has been working in the internet industry since 2002, and involved in the LINX community since 2009. He started out in a technical career solving problems – the most simple being poor internet connectivity in the office, and has been solving problems ever since, although less on the technology aspect and more on strategy and finance for the past decade.

Simon currently represents the LINX member Bogons of which he is one of the founders and company directors. Bogons is an ISP with a focus both on media delivery and rural Broadband access. He also provide technical consultancy services to several AltNets within the UK, one of which he has also assisted in joining LINX.

Simon previously represented two other LINX members – Glide (a managed services provider across multiple sectors including Student Accommodation, Business Parks, and Residential Build-to-Rent) and the BBC in their Internet Services team.

Proud to be named after Neil Armstrong; Neil McRae has been working in the Internet industry since it started; working in technical roles and senior engineering and technology roles over the last 25 years, including Demon Internet, COLT, and C&W. and more recently at BT as BT Group Chief Architect and MD Strategy and Architecture.

Neil was at BT for many years as Group Chief Architect and MD Strategy and Architecture and in 2023, he moved to Juniper Networks to be their Chief Network Strategist.

This is Neil’s 20th year serving on (and off!) the board of the LINX and he has been involved in the company since it was first suggested as a concept. Neil also advises a number of network technology startups and more established network companies. Neil is married with one daughter and two amazing grandchildren! Out of the office Neil is a huge space enthusiast and studies the history of telecommunications as part of the manned space program.

Neil also plays video games and pinball and participates at the national and world championships.

Alex is General Manager of Andrews & Arnold Ltd (AS20712) a small/niche Internet Service Provider providing broadband to home and business customers as well as VoIP services, ethernet, mobile data and SIP2SIM products, as well as the FireBrick range of hardware network appliances.

Alex has presented on “Morals, Ethics and Politics Online” at BT Tower, as well as jointly running training sessions at the Society for Computers and Law. Having a lifelong interest in communications, Alex is a radio amateur, qualifying in the late 1990s and holding callsign M1AJB..

Pete is director of Mythic Beasts Ltd (AS44684), a hosting and cloud company and has pioneered new technology including IPv6 only services and a Raspberry Pi cloud. Growing Mythic Beasts organically from a student project to a multi-national operation with remote only working he has experience of all areas of business. He’s a regular speaker and educator at conferences on the subject of IPv6 hosting.

Outside of work he’s a regular marathon runner (sometimes accompanied by his son in the buggy) and guest computer science lecturer at Cambridge University.

Kurt Erik “Kurtis” Lindqvist has a broad background in engineering and business development of ISP and worldwide carrier networks. He has spent the past 20 years working actively in the Internet community in several varied roles.

From 2002 to 2015 he was the CEO of Netnod. Kurt Erik has been the chairman of Euro-IX since 2003. He is also a dedicated WG Chair for RIPE where he has serve d as NCC-Services WG Chair since 2004. He is a regular and appreciated speaker at several International Internet conferences such as RIPE, APRICOT and Nanog.

Previously Kurt Erik has chaired the Multi6, shim6 and v6ops WGs in the IETF. He is also the co-author of two RFCs. Kurt Erik has served as a member of the Internet Architecture Board between 2005-2009.

Over the years Kurt Erik has participated actively in the development, standardisation and deployment of IPv6 in the IETF and various other operational forums. In addition Kurt Erik served as an adviser to the Swedish Minister of Information Technology and Energy cooperating with Anna-Karin Hatt and the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt.

Richard has been with LINX since 2014, running the technology group, responsible for all of LINX’s exchanges across the UK and in North America.

Previously, Richard has held senior operations and engineering positions with service providers, Colt Technology and IPC Network Services as well as within financial services companies such as Bloomberg and BGC Partners. He has over fifteen years experience in delivering high volume, low latency and agile network solutions.

Jennifer Holmes has worked at the London Internet Exchange (LINX) since 2007.

Initially operating in business development executive and management roles, she took on the position of CCO at LINX in 2019.

Since joining the company, LINX membership has more than tripled to in excess of 900 members from 80 countries and now serves as the main Interconnection Hub for London, as well as other locations around the UK and globally.

Andy joined LINX in late 2023. As CFO, Andy is responsible for all aspects of financial management at LINX.

Andy is a chartered accountant and qualified corporate treasurer with significant experience in senior financial roles.  Andy has 23 years’ previous experience as CFO in two AIM-listed technology businesses, StatPro Group plc and 1Spatial plc. He has demonstrable experience in growing international technology businesses, with a focus on sustainable recurring revenue, and delivering significantly enhanced enterprise values.