Team

Ethernetics is a Belgian Technology Start-up with a solid foundation. Our Team:

• FREDERIC CANTINEAU

  PRODUCT LEAD

  frederic@ethernetics.tech

  Frederic is a passionate and experienced front-end software developer. On top of that, he loves back-end sofware and data bases. He is specialized in Drupal, HTML, CSS, jQuery, JavaScript, PHP, Flash, Magento, DevOps and Zabbix and he masters a wide variety of other programms, languages and technologies.

  At Ethernetics Frederic dives deep into the world of DASHREP and DCPM. He sees to it that all our customer’s back-end data are translated to our front-end customer portal in a fully automized. So all Ethernetics customers can see in detail how their data center is performing, at any time, with only a couple of clicks on any device.

  Customer centricity and ease of use are of paramount importance in all Frederic’s work.
• HERMAN DE LATTE

  CHAIRMAN

  herman@ethernetics.tech

  Herman De Latte is the active chairman of Ethernetics, coaching and mentoring the team to become as experienced as he is himself.

  In the 80’s he was a managing director at Ashton-Tate Corporation, the company that got famous for developing the program Dbase. In the 90’s Herman has been COO of Micrografx in Dallas (USA) and the CEO of ON Technology in Boston (USA). All these companies were publicly quoted on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in those days.

  About 20 years ago, Herman entered into the world of Venture Capital, and he’s still active there. He was a partner and shareholder at Big Bang Ventures (BE). He was a partner at Solid Ventures in Holland and  Green Ventures  in India. Furthermore, he was a valued member of the Board of Directors of several start-ups, like Scense (NL), Planzone (FR) and Mobiya (UK).

  Herman puts this extensive knowledge and global experience to work for Ethernetics today. He has a life-long passion for IT technology, Business Intelligence, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, to create value for mankind. He is a driving force to make Ethernetics a global brand in scalable platform solutions for data centers with a strong focus on SAAS.
• JAN DEZUTTER

  MANAGING PARTNER & COFOUNDER

  jan@ethernetics.tech

  Jan the catalyst and the evangelist of Ethernetics’ vision on datacenter-management, optimisation, “disaster”-prevention en automation, based on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data.

  Jan has 20 years of useful experience in sales and marketing. He is a battle-hardened sales and marketing manager since 1999 in the fields of telecom, data centers, WAN and cloud services in corporates, medium enterprises as well as in start-ups. He used to be the country manager of Interoute in Belgium. Under his supervision, Interoute built a state-of-the-art data center in Ghent.

  Jan ha a strong belief in co-creation and co-innovation with customers, commercial ecosystems and partners.  

  The best way to predict the future is to create it. (Alan Kay) 
• GERT DE SPIEGELEER

  MANAGING PARTNER & COFOUNDER

  gert@ethernetics.tech

  Gert is the Chief Revenue Officer and responsible for the management and organisation of the finances of Ethernetics. On top of the financial planning, the management of cash flows and the strategic financial advise, Gert is always looking for financing opportunities to speed up the growth of Ethernetics.  

  Gert is a master in Applied Economical Sciences of the UGent and a Certified Financial Analyst. In 2016 graduated as an MBA at Vlerick Business School with honours.
• ROBERT LEUNE

  MANAGING DIRECTOR

  robert@ethernetics.tech

  Since 2001 Robert designs and develops high-speed and high-reliability systems like motherboards, processors and code for Barco, Philips Medical Systems, Harman Professional and Gemidis. In 2011 he brought smart PDU’s to the data center world as a former lead ingeneer in the days that Racktivity was still a startup. In April 2018 Robert founded Ethernetics and in February 2019 all intellectual property, trade-marks, patents and technology of Racktivity was acquired by Ethernetics.

  Robert designs organic technology: adaptive, efficient and stripped of all ballast. What is more organic than self-healing and self-learning systems? That is a question to ask Robert and the Ethernetics engineering team.
• JEROEN CLAES

  ENGINEERING LEAD

  jeroen@ethernetics.tech

  Jeroen is a very passionate FPGA design-engineer. At Ethernetics his focus is on the integration of his designs into the physical components of the Ethernetics solutions. With his broad experience in VHDL, Python, ModelSim, C/C++ and Matlab, nothing can stop him to realize successful projects.

  Jeroen feels completely at home in no-nonsense environments and his added value is at its best in start-ups en scale-ups, where his input and creativity have a proven impact.