Jury Pool for the RAD Race Edition 2006/7

The RAD Race is closely monitored by members of our independent expert jury pool, consisting of:

• Herbert Boland is media and internet consultant for Beatrijs Media Group and former editor in chief of various leading IT magazines, mainly in the field of database programming and design and software development, which he has co-founded.
• Luc Chauvin is ICT Manager for the Ministery of the Flemish Community: involved in the long term ICT strategy development, responsible for the ICT service delivery for the different departments through a global ICT outsourcing contract with EDS/Telindus.
• Dirk Deschoolmeester is a professor in ICT; partner of Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School and professor at Gent Univrsity. He is a member of the board of SAI and chairman of FBVI-FAIB.
• Jan De Sutter is CFO working in the administration of the EU. He was elected ICT Manager 2000 in the DataNews ICT Manager Contest and is the author of the besteller The Power of IT - Survival Guide for the CIO. His main interest is not technology as such, but how technology can be used to create value in the context of an organisation.
• Jan Detremmerie is an interim manager and consultant focusing on ICT project and program management. He has hands-on experience organising and running ICT departments and product development, including sales. His career has taken him all over Europe and as far as the US and Japan where he lived for several years. Manager of m-COM, member of the IEEE , Computer Society and active in the Open Source Technical Activity Board, member of ISOC.
• Peter Hinssen is the founder of e-COM (founded in 1995, acquired by Alcatel), StreamCase (founded in 2000, acquired by Belgacom) and Porthus (founded in 1999). He is the chairman of Porthus, coach of Amplexor and partner of The Originals. He was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at McKinsey & Company, and is a frequent international lecturer.
• Stephan Jansen is founder and chairman of the Belgian Java User Group since 1996 and founder of JavaPolis in 2002. He is founder and managing director of JCS Int. a Sun authorized Java Center.
• Jacques Tiberghien is professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and lecturer at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He obtained the degree of electro-mechanical engineer from the ULB, a PhD in engineering from the VUB and was visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkley. He is Senior Member of the IEEE, Golden Core member of the IEEE Computer Society, member of ACM, of Euromicro and of many smaller scientific and professional organizations.
• Guido Van Humbeeck is member of the board of SAI and Senior Enterprise Strategy Consultant at Microsoft. He has over 20 years experience in application development and ICT in general. During his career he was involved in several strategic projects where the latest technologies .NET and J2EE are used. Architecture, from business to technology, is his key interest.
• Jan Vanthienen is professor in ICT at K.U.Leuven where he teaches and researches on Information Systems, Management and Intelligence. He is a founding member of the Leuven Institute for Research in Information Systems (LIRIS), and chairholder of the PwC E-Business Chair and the Microsoft Chair on Intelligent Environments.
• Ivan Verborgh is head of administration and IT in a healthcare facility. He is the driving force behind the RAD Race in concept, preparation and "hands-on" realisation. He is the author of all the RAD Race cases since 1997. Mr. Verborgh is member of the ICT group of MOVI; guest lecturer in IT at the Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg and author for Informatie. He was elected "Datanews ICT Manager 2004" - First Nominee Small & Medium Sized Businesses.