At Tornado Insider Arjen focuses on building strategic business relationships with industry analysts, investment bankers, financial analysts and VC firms. Arjen began his high-tech career as a partner and senior vice president of Prolin Automation, a leading global IT service management software provider. Prior to this, Arjen gained considerable experience in banking, marketing and sales spanning a 17-year period. Ives helped establish the company s monthly magazine, website and daily e-newsletters. He is responsible for the content in these vehicles and manages the team of researchers and writers.
Ives is also responsible for content and speaker selection for the annual Upstart Europe conference.
Prior to Tornado Insider, Ives was with Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Hyperion and two startups. Michael van Es, Chief Financial Officer Michael van Es, Tornado Insider s chief financial officer, has gained wide financial, business development and management experience at Friesland Coberco Dairy Foods, lastly as finance and operations manager for the worldwide commercial cheese division. He has also worked as a management consultant. He is also chairman of the supervisory board of All-locations, a mobile solutions software provider. Liz Barth, Director of Research Liz Barth is the director of research for Tornado Insider.