Marco Gianotten (1966) is the founder of Giarte Media Group and co-founder of Metatude. After his graduation he started working for ITI-TNO, Target Direct Marketing, Volmac and some management consultancy firms. Marco is the author of several books, such as: 'Management of Data Centers' in co-authorship with professor Ronald Paans and books like 'Digital Leadership' and 'IT in the Boardroom'. In 1995 he founded Giarte Media Group. Marco is key-note speaker at many events and moderates workshops for executives, managers and customers of large IT-firms as Novell and IBM. He has been participating in the management day's off Pon Holdings, FBTO and Nutreco. Together with Jac Gianotten he founded Metatude. Marco has a very extensive network of top managers.

Jac Gianotten
Chief Operations and Technology Officer (COO/CTO)

Jac Gianotten (1968) has been involved with Giarte since his economic studies at the University of Amsterdam, mainly as author and research manager. He is co-author of several books on IT-strategy, outsourcing and e-business. Since 1997 he is in charge of the internet activities of the Giarte Media Group. In this role he designed the virtual communities ITsurvey.com and 'Topmanagement and IT'. The knowledge on technology and research, that Giarte acquired, has been the starting point for de spin-off Metatude, of which Jac is co-founder.