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Michael Oghia

Based in The Hague, Netherlands

Michael J. Oghia is a Hague-based entrepreneur, tech sustainability consultant, and the founder of Oghia Advising – an independent consultancy providing strategic communications, project management, and ecosystem-building services to clients worldwide across the digital infrastructure, cyber resilience, Internet policy, sustainability, development, and tech for journalism & media landscapes. He has a career spanning more than 15 years over seven countries and regions along with multiple sectors, where he is known for his cross-cultural fluency, multidisciplinary networks, engagement expertise, and ability to connect people, ideas, and systems. A connector at heart, Michael is a sought-after speaker, community builder, and champion of sustainable tech ecosystems who helps early-stage ventures and innovative founders realize their vision, align stakeholders, and execute effectively in fast-evolving environments. He also loathes referring to himself in third person.

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Sjoerd Wolthers

Based in Amsterdam

Sjoerd is Chief Technology Officer at the RIPE NCC.

Marta Burocchi

Based in Rome

Marta Burocchi is a network engineer based in Rome. She graduated in Computer Science Engineering from Roma Tre University and has been working at Namex since 2021. Passionate about networking and internet infrastructure, she is dedicated to ensuring efficient and secure connectivity.

André Grüneberg

Based in Berlin, Germany

André is CTO at BCIX (Berlin Commercial Internet Exchange). He is trying to use IPv6 on everything connected since 2001.

Leo Vegoda

Based in Coventry, England

Leo Vegoda is PeeringDB’s Product Manager. He was previously responsible for organizational planning and improvement in ICANN’s Office of the COO, and Internet Number Resources in the IANA department, as well as running Registration Services at the RIPE NCC.

Ulka Athale

Based in Amsterdam

I started working at the RIPE NCC in 2018 as part of the Communications and Marketing team. Over the past years, I have been involved in the development of RIPE NCC Certified Professionals, the redesign of RIPE Labs and ripe.net and in supporting the RIPE Chair team and RIPE NCC-organised events, particularly RIPE Meetings. I also work closely with the NRO NC and the currently ongoing global process to review the governance of the RIR system, being held in conjunction with ICANN. I hold a Research Master in Literary Studies from the University of Amsterdam and an Executive MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Oleksiy Alex Semenyaka

Oleksiy ("Alex") is a Senior Community Development Officer and Technical Advisor at the RIPE NCC. He supports the RIPE NCC’s engagement with the community, network operators, technical bodies, and academia. His work also includes Internet measurements and research into network stability, interconnectivity, and core infrastructure like BGP and DNS, particularly through RIPE tools. As Technical Advisor, Alex tracks industry developments, represents the organization at industry events, and works with internal teams to enhance technical training initiatives.

Robert Kisteleki

For many years I have been the leader of the Research and Development team at the RIPE NCC leading a dedicated team of thinkers to support the RIPE community by providing network research, data analysis and prototype tool development and services including RIPE Atlas and RIPEstat. As of 2023, I'm working as a principal engineer in order to assist the CTO and the RIPE NCC's information services.

Martin Pels

Based in The Netherlands

Martin is a specialist system engineer at RIPE NCC and co-founder of NLNOG RING.