LINX London IXManchester IXScotland LINX NoVA Home | Public Affairs | Member Area Remember Me Forgotten password Council of Management E-mail this to a friend Print this page LINX has a council of management - in effect, the board of directors - consisting of the chief executive officer and six non-executive directors elected by the members. John Souter (LINX Chief Executive Officer) Mathematics graduate John Souter joined LINX as chief executive in March 2001. He has also been a Board member and Treasurer of Euro-IX (the IXP trade association) since inception in 2001. John had a 20 year career with the British Standards Institution, culminating in his directorship of BSI Quality Assurance. In 1996 he became vice president for systems and operations with Mobile Systems International Plc, whose Planet software product was used in planning many GSM and paging networks. In 1998 he became managing director of AAH Meditel Ltd, which provides clinical record and decision support systems to NHS general practitioners, and in 2000 was appointed as UK managing director of Varetis Communications, which provided Internet, WAP-based and directory computer systems to telephone companies. He has also served in a number of non-executive director and advisory positions for various organisations over the years. He is co-author of a technical book on Portable Modula-2 Programming. Seb Lahtinen (NetConnex) An entrepreneur with a strong interest in internet related projects, Sebastien is a director of hosting company NetConnex and co-founder of independent broadband information site thinkbroadband.com. Prior to joining LINX, he was Senior Independent Director at Nominet, the .uk domain name registry and has previously served as Chairman of LONAP and Chair of Nominet's Policy Advisory Board. Sebastien holds B.Sc. Management and M.Sc. Information Systems degrees from the London School of Economics. Neil McRae (BT) Neil has been working with LINX since the organisation was founded in 1994 and was elected to the board in the year 2000. He is currently Chief Network Architect at BT. Previous positions have included Head of IP and Data at Cable & Wireless and senior technology and operations roles at COLT, Demon Internet and Easynet. Neil has also been fervent supporter of a number of other Internet and Telecoms related organisations. He is a strong believer that the success of the LINX is underpinned by its neutrality. Neil also believes that increased interaction between members, continued innovation and the assurance that LINX continues to play a pivotal role in regulatory issues in the industry as being vital to the long term success of the organisation. Steve Wright Steve is an experienced technology and operations consultant and non-executive director. His career has been focussed on building and developing cloud based businesses with a passion for delivering outstanding customer service. He is a founding director of Monayo ­ a cloud monitoring specialist, and provides his services to Cogendo ­ a leading employee performance management platform. Previous roles have focussed on delivering high availability business critical services, long term growth and business scaling. He has been involved with LINX since ~2004 and was a member of the LPC (LINX Program Committee) during 2011 and early 2012 before being elected to the board. In May 2013, Steve was elected Vice Chairman of LINX Board. Patrick Gilmore (Markley Group) Patrick W. Gilmore is Chief Technology Officer of Markley Group, a colocation & IaaS company headquartered in Boston. Markley Group also owns and operates the BostonIX. Most recently, Patrick was Chief Network Architect at Akamai Technologies, where he worked for over 13 years. Patrick's group was responsible for peering and capacity for the world's largest CDN, which serves approximately 20% of all traffic on the Internet. In the 1990s, Patrick held management and architecture positions at Onyx Networks, Concentric Networks, and Priori Networks, which were national and international backbones. Patrick is currently on the Board of Directors for the Seattle Internet Exchange, the largest Internet Exchange in the world with no recurring charges. Patrick is also Vice Chairman and Administrator of the PeeringDB, the largest and most used database of peering information on the planet. Patrick was formerly Secretary and on the Board of Directors for the North American Network Operators' Group, the foremost organization for network professionals. Thomas Mangin (Exa Networks) Thomas Mangin is the Technical Director and major shareholder of Exa Networks Ltd, and also Secretary for Lopez Neary Limited, a translation and interpretation business. He holds a English BSc and French MSc in computing. He started his career at Legend Internet where he held the position of Systems Manager from 2000 to 2003 where he was responsible of all of the business technical aspects. He left this position just before the purchase of the business by Business Serve (later Legend Communication) to found Exa Networks Ltd where he is an Executive Director. He has been involved with LINX since 2002 and was a member of the LPC (LINX Program Committee) between 2006 and 2010. Nina Bargisen (Netflix) Nina is European Network Strategy manager for Netflix. Her current role is focused on connecting Netflix Open Connect Platform to Partners and IXes in Europe in order to efficiently serve Netflix customers in the markets where the service is available. Nina joined Netflix in August 2013. Previously she was Network Planner for TDC A/S (aka Teledanmark). She held that position since 2003 and has been involved in Peering since 2005. Other areas of interest and expertise are Traffic Engineering, CDN, IGP, Network design, Regulatory Topics, IP registry and network statistics and tools. She served on the NANOG Programme Commitee from 2008 to 2012. Nina has an M.Sc in Mathematics. 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