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Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Elian Kool

CEO

Elian Kool’s passion for digital transformation has been a major force of Netcentric’s success and growth. As co-founder and CEO, empowering both clients and the Netcentric team to reach excellence underpins Elian’s leadership. His expertise in Adobe Marketing Cloud technology has established him as a trusted advisor to Netcentric clients and in the industry beyond. His dedication to Netcentric’s core values is evident from his strategic vision of the company’s future to its daily operations. With his background in software engineering, solution architecture and management, Elian has led multinational teams and delivered best-in-class enterprise projects. Indeed, his achievements today are built on over ten years of experience in the Adobe Marketing Cloud.

Harry Zenklusen

Principal Business Consultant

Stephan Becker

Senior-System Engineer

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Fabian Krumbholz

UX Consultant

Stephan Becker

Senior-System Engineer

Nicole Wieting-Kälin

Executive Director Marketing Communications

Nicole heads Marketing Communications at Netcentric, evolving the brand and working towards global recognition. She has comprehensive experience in branding, business development, marketing communications and technology. As a dynamic leader with an international background in various areas, she is passionate about developing new ideas and creating value. Nicole encourages teams to succeed, excels in driving change and implementing innovations.

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Ricard Torres

Senior Frontend Software Engineer

Ferran Sabate

Frontend Developer

Mark van der Wal

Managing Director Benelux

With 25 years of corporate and agency experience in the digital domain in expert and leadership roles, Mark brings a huge amount of entrepreneurial spirit and experience with enterprise clients like Philips, Rabobank and Liberty Global to the table. With a passion for new technologies and his digital marketing background, he is able to guide clients in their digital transformation and create relevant and long term business value.

Christine Hart

Senior Marketing Technology Consultant

With over 15 years of experience at all levels of digital execution and projects, Christine specialises in taking client vision, translating it, executing it and delivering it as full solutions. With an undergraduate degree in fine art and an MBA in Information Systems and Marketing, Christine brings a unique perspective to problem-solving in digital solutions. She is passionate about learning; mastering new digital marketing technologies to creating innovative social campaigns. Christine is also an avid chef, speaks three languages and DJs in her spare time.

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Miriam Ariza Gómez

Senior UX Consultant

Rasmus Frick

Director Business Consulting

Rasmus has more than 20 years of experience in positions in various industries, including steel and high-tech, and now more than 6 years in IT consulting. He has always focused on IT related processes that interface between company and their end customer. Rasmus is part of Netcentric’s Business Consulting management team. He holds a diploma in mechanical engineering from ETH Zurich and an Executive MBA from WHU/Kellogg. Besides spending time with his family, he enjoys playing the saxophone and mountain sports.

Christian Fromme

Business Consultant

Paul Razniewski

Business Consultant

Dan Beldiman

Managing Director Eastern Europe, Principal Solution Architect

Dan is a proud Netcentric co-founder and a Solutions Architect for both Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Campaign. He is focused on infrastructure and operations and has designed numerous AEM and AC setups, with an emphasis on operational reliability. Dan is regularly engaged in fire-fighting missions and has successfully stabilised AEM setups for various clients around the world. Dan now leads Netcentric's System Engineering team and is accountable for running and growing our subsidiary in Romania. When not working, Dan enjoys travelling - he has visited 60 countries and counting!

Dr. Peter Scheytt

Executive Director Business Consulting

Peter is recognized as a leader of complex transformation projects. He has almost 20 years of experience in building strong consulting teams, delivering value-adding international IT and business programs. His mission is "improving the customer experience of our customers' customers.” He will lead the growing Business Consulting Circle at Netcentric. Peter holds a master’s degree in computer science and a PhD in management. He teaches university courses in business transformation and management, speaks four languages and is a passionate triathlete.

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Dragos Popa

Quality Engineer

Brindusa Cojocaru

Director Marketing Operations

Brindusa adds Marketing Operations to Netcentric’s service offering. She is a savvy operations leader, with over 10 years of experience in leading teams of extensive size, focusing on delivering quality of service and value added to customers with a “can do” attitude. Brindusa has expertise in project management, driving operational efficiency through automation, platform implementation and process standardization. She is proud of being consistently recognized as a leader by her peers. Brindusa is passionate about travelling, trying to visit the world one bit at a time.

Fabian Krumbholz

UX Consultant

Natalia Venditto

Senior Front-end Software Engineer

Natalia Venditto is a technical lead for one of Netcentric’s largest client platforms. With strong focus in performance and cutting-edge technologies, she designs and implements quality frontend solutions. With long-standing experience in Design and Web Development and significant expertise in full stack development, Natalia has successfully built and led a solid team of Frontend Engineers at Netcentric. Natalia presents at prestigious web engineering conferences and internal training events.

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Olena Slyshkova

Senior Back-end Software Engineer

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Lars Metze

Senior Business Consultant

Lars Metze

Senior Business Consultant

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Dr. Peter Scheytt

Executive Director Business Consulting

Peter is recognized as a leader of complex transformation projects. He has almost 20 years of experience in building strong consulting teams, delivering value-adding international IT and business programs. His mission is "improving the customer experience of our customers' customers.” He will lead the growing Business Consulting Circle at Netcentric. Peter holds a master’s degree in computer science and a PhD in management. He teaches university courses in business transformation and management, speaks four languages and is a passionate triathlete.

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Natalia Venditto

Senior Front-end Software Engineer

Natalia Venditto is a technical lead for one of Netcentric’s largest client platforms. With strong focus in performance and cutting-edge technologies, she designs and implements quality frontend solutions. With long-standing experience in Design and Web Development and significant expertise in full stack development, Natalia has successfully built and led a solid team of Frontend Engineers at Netcentric. Natalia presents at prestigious web engineering conferences and internal training events.

Maya Reinshagen

Director Marketing Automation

Digital transformation – with all its challenges and opportunities – have been fascinating Maya for almost 20 years. She has a deep understanding of the drivers of marketing performance and metrics. Her wealth of experience in developing sustainable strategies and concepts for successful customer data-oriented marketing for large organizations within the B2C and B2B market have given her a solid grasp of technical feasibility and achievability. She drives the areas of Omni-Channel Campaign Management and Marketing Automation within the company, ensuring best-in-class solutions for clients based on Adobe Campaign.

Sandro Röder

Marketing Technology Consultant

Alina Zugulova

Requirements Engineer

Christine Hart

Senior Marketing Technology Consultant

With over 15 years of experience at all levels of digital execution and projects, Christine specialises in taking client vision, translating it, executing it and delivering it as full solutions. With an undergraduate degree in fine art and an MBA in Information Systems and Marketing, Christine brings a unique perspective to problem-solving in digital solutions. She is passionate about learning; mastering new digital marketing technologies to creating innovative social campaigns. Christine is also an avid chef, speaks three languages and DJs in her spare time.

Nicole Wieting-Kälin

Executive Director Marketing Communications

Nicole heads Marketing Communications at Netcentric, evolving the brand and working towards global recognition. She has comprehensive experience in branding, business development, marketing communications and technology. As a dynamic leader with an international background in various areas, she is passionate about developing new ideas and creating value. Nicole encourages teams to succeed, excels in driving change and implementing innovations.

Piotr Zabiello

Group Managing Director

Piotr is a trained economist with an MBA in Business Engineering and nearly 30 years’ start-up and corporate experience. He is now a highly experienced consultant, senior project manager and executive line manager with extensive expertise in the Enterprise IT domain. Piotr describes himself as a CQ / AEM and Web Technologies "veteran", serving as Senior Vice President of Global Services & Support for Day Software from 2000 to 2009. A supporter of Netcentric's annual sailing event, Piotr has offered himself for the role of Skipper of Netcentric's Corporate Yacht (should this become a reality).

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Fritz Oleinek

Managing Director United Kingdom, Director Marketing Technology Consulting

With over 20 years of professional experience as a senior manager and at C-level in the field of Marketing Technology, Fritz has an in-depth understanding of all relevant areas, including infrastructure, information architecture, content, technology and digital marketing strategies. This enables him to “speak” both languages – Marketing and Technology, so he is perfectly placed to translate clients’ business requirements into granular, IT specifics. And he can also communicate challenges emanating from IT and development teams to clients and work with them to solve complex problems.

Evan Payne

Senior Front-end Software Engineer

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Nicole Wieting-Kälin

Executive Director Marketing Communications

Nicole heads Marketing Communications at Netcentric, evolving the brand and working towards global recognition. She has comprehensive experience in branding, business development, marketing communications and technology. As a dynamic leader with an international background in various areas, she is passionate about developing new ideas and creating value. Nicole encourages teams to succeed, excels in driving change and implementing innovations.

Oscar Farga

Senior Software Engineer

With a career spanning nearly 20 years, Oscar is a highly experienced and senior Java web developer and team mentor. Developing portals, intranets, e-commerce websites, web applications and advanced digital signatures, over the years he has also built up and led successful teams, delivering complex projects in a wide variety of business verticals. These range from public administration, banking, broadcasting, retail, online gaming, automotive to pharmaceuticals. Oscar loves funk music, travelling and learning languages. He is also committed to the preservation of primates.

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Stephan Becker

Senior-System Engineer

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Stephan Becker

Senior-System Engineer

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Markus Seidel

Director Business Consulting

Markus has been working in business consulting for 20+ years. Ten years ago, he decided to focus on transformation management and has successfully led several large international projects and programs in this area. Markus is known to be fully committed to his clients and takes responsibility for their success. From the outside-in view along the whole customer journey to the corresponding internal organisation, processes and IT, Markus masters the interdependencies between these (digital) transformation streams and ensures success by accompanying projects with professional change management.

Stefan Franck

Executive Director

One Netcentric’s co-founders, Stefan is an expert in shaping solutions for clients - from requirements analysis to project specification and more. Stefan sees himself as the link between business and technology and, for over ten years now, he has filled various roles as architect, project lead and lead consultant. Stefan's focus is on the Adobe Marketing Cloud and AEM, to which he is strongly connected from his days at Day Software and Adobe. He says that co-founding Netcentric was one of the best choices in his professional life. Never before been able to work with so many brilliant people.

Brindusa Cojocaru

Director Marketing Operations

Brindusa adds Marketing Operations to Netcentric’s service offering. She is a savvy operations leader, with over 10 years of experience in leading teams of extensive size, focusing on delivering quality of service and value added to customers with a “can do” attitude. Brindusa has expertise in project management, driving operational efficiency through automation, platform implementation and process standardization. She is proud of being consistently recognized as a leader by her peers. Brindusa is passionate about travelling, trying to visit the world one bit at a time.

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Dan Beldiman

Managing Director Eastern Europe, Principal Solution Architect

Dan is a proud Netcentric co-founder and a Solutions Architect for both Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Campaign. He is focused on infrastructure and operations and has designed numerous AEM and AC setups, with an emphasis on operational reliability. Dan is regularly engaged in fire-fighting missions and has successfully stabilised AEM setups for various clients around the world. Dan now leads Netcentric's System Engineering team and is accountable for running and growing our subsidiary in Romania. When not working, Dan enjoys travelling - he has visited 60 countries and counting!

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Doru Muntean

Quality Automation Engineer

Georg Henzler

Principal Solution Architect

Georg has grown up with the web space from the very beginning and has helped enterprises to design their solution for it from the time when images were first added to their web sites. Today he shapes the way Netcentric delivers IT projects technically by continuously evolving the development process and automating infrastructure to the last slash. Amongst being a committer for Apache Sling (the web framework in AEM) he has contributed to many other open source projects and talks regularly at tech conferences. He loves Netcentric for its culture of "Share, discuss and bring ideas to life"!

Conrad Wöltge

CTO

Joining Netcentric with his team in 2015, Conrad’s philosophy is that good solutions are simple and robust. But he also has a liking for disruption and as CTO of Aperto, he introduced Scrum to enterprise projects. In 2006, Conrad founded his own consulting company dedicated to CQ/AEM. His work as principal architect - mostly for Day Software later Adobe - for international projects took advantage of his dedication to simplicity, consistency and cutting edge solutions. He has spent many years in the US and in Europe and is a regular speaker at technology conferences.

Michael McCrae

Group Managing Director

As part of Netcentric's founding team, Michael is primarily focused on the company's growth from the beginning. Having set up and developed Netcentric's largest office in Barcelona, he now has his sights sets on expanding Netcentric's presence beyond Europe. With 15 years experience as an international project manager for enterprise web platforms, he also helps guide some of Netcentric's biggest clients to successful Adobe Marketing Cloud implementations. Michael's international background and desire for ever-evolving challenges continues to push Netcentric beyond its borders.

Santiago García Pimentel

Senior - Back-end Software Engineer

Elian Kool

CEO

Elian Kool’s passion for digital transformation has been a major force of Netcentric’s success and growth. As co-founder and CEO, empowering both clients and the Netcentric team to reach excellence underpins Elian’s leadership. His expertise in Adobe Marketing Cloud technology has established him as a trusted advisor to Netcentric clients and in the industry beyond. His dedication to Netcentric’s core values is evident from his strategic vision of the company’s future to its daily operations. With his background in software engineering, solution architecture and management, Elian has led multinational teams and delivered best-in-class enterprise projects. Indeed, his achievements today are built on over ten years of experience in the Adobe Marketing Cloud.

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Oscar Farga

Senior Software Engineer

With a career spanning nearly 20 years, Oscar is a highly experienced and senior Java web developer and team mentor. Developing portals, intranets, e-commerce websites, web applications and advanced digital signatures, over the years he has also built up and led successful teams, delivering complex projects in a wide variety of business verticals. These range from public administration, banking, broadcasting, retail, online gaming, automotive to pharmaceuticals. Oscar loves funk music, travelling and learning languages. He is also committed to the preservation of primates.

Valdas Jasaitis

Principal Software Engineer

A highly educated and experienced professional with a Ph.D.in Computer Science from Vilnius University in his native Lithuania, Valdas has over 15 years of experience in leading web projects based on Java. Since joining Netcentric in 2012 he has been actively engaged in developing Adobe Marketing Cloud solutions for a variety of different clients - with a strong focus on Adobe Experience Manager, customer analytics and data science technologies. Outside work Valdas is also committed marathon runner, tailors his own shirts, and has even appeared in the Game of Thrones TV series.

Netcentric, A Cognizant Digital Business

Stephan Becker

Senior-System Engineer