Experienced yet entrepreneurial

A board of experienced entrepreneurs oversees BackupAgent's business strategy and operations. Introducing:

Floris van Alkemade (Chairman)

Floris is partner of Solid Ventures. Floris was a general partner from 1998 to 2008 at NeSBIC CTe Fund, EUR 210M value added venture capital funds having invested in 38 early stage technology companies in Europe and US. In 2000 he managed the NeSBIC CTe Fund office in Silicon Valley, US. At the end of 2005 he founded Solid Ventures to invest in Dutch based technology companies. Before starting in venture capital Floris worked at Unisource NV, a pan-European telecommunications company, the investment bank MeesPierson NV and the consulting firm Andersson Elffers Felix BV. He has a Masters Degree in Business Econometrics from the Free University of Amsterdam.

Dmitry Chikhachev

Dmitry is managing partner of Runa Capital. Dmitry has a 18 years
track record as business executive with broad cross-functional experience.
He served 3 years as CEO/COO of a successful start-up company (Uvenco Holding Limited),
4 years in International Business Development & Investment Projects management (Ritzio Entertainment Group)
and 7 years in High-tech Organization Development & Human Resources management (LM Ericsson International AB).
Dmitry has a master degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology and an MBA from the American Institute of Business and Economics.

Paul van Keep

Paul has been involved in software development for almost 30 years. In 1984, during his computer science studies, he was one of the co-founders of Exact Software. In 1993, he left Exact and became an informal investor. He has since invested in numerous IT ventures. He co-founded a new software company called Sumatra in 1997, which develops Business Intelligence software for large Exact sites. He is currently CEO of Sumatra as well as advisor to three other companies, among which BackupAgent.