Management

Ivo Wentholt, Chief Executive Officer
Wentholt (1971) joined the Research & Development Dpt. of Planet Internet in the early Internet days (1994-1997). In his free time developed a very successful online chess community (chessed.com with 250,000 members) which he sold to a US New Media company in 1998. In 1997 Ivo Wentholt joined the Management of Lost Boys interactive (www.lostboys.com) as Manager Online Services where he stayed until end 2000. In this period his department grew to 40 people. Before starting Sharewire BV end 2003, he had several interim management assignments, wrote articles, and gave lectures about trends and technology. In 2002 he won the Handango Champion Award for MobileChess, a mobile multiplayer chess application.

Rogier van Duyn, Chief Commercial Officer
Van Duyn (1975) completed his bachelor studies in the U.S. in 1999. (B.A. Business Management, G.P.A. 3.6) In 2000 Van Duyn obtained in Brussels, Belgium an M.B.A. with a concentration in Global IT & Telecom Management. (G.P.A. 3.2) In 2000 Van Duyn joined Telfort, a Dutch mobile operator with 1.5 million customers, as the Executive Assistant to the CEO. When he finished this Management Development Program, he continued his career at Business Development focusing on closing mobile data partnerships. His next career move was to TBWA\ where he worked as New Business Manager. There he developed his commercial skills together with the TBWA\ Dutch management. After two years he left TBWA\ and started his first entrepreneurial project, a moblog company, Mobypicture, together with marketing partners Siemens Mobile and Wanadoo. In 2004 he sold his shares to the partners. Van Duyn has a strong commercial and entrepreneurial background. In November 2005 Van Duyn joined Sharewire as CCO.