Frank Koopman is a seasoned entrepreneur and strategist. He is
personally involved in various start-up ventures; as initiator,
investor, and or board member.
Frank is a market driven and people oriented board level
executive. His passion is growth. Top line as well as
breakthrough innovations. Business oriented, extremely focused, strong analytics
and vision. He combines disruptive innovation
with creativity and execution. Out of the box thinker.
Frank is married to a beautiful and lovely wife, and has raised
three daughters (which was challenging). His interests
include a good conversation, glass of wine, setting-up successful
companies, and a 30+-year enthusiasm for reading classic science
fiction literature. He holds dual nationalities, Dutch and French.
The latter brings his romantic life style.
Under the auspices of his management company NextCom
and investment company Telcobrains, Frank creates and manages a
variety of world-class initiatives that change and
improve the way people do business and live their lives, and
where people with imagination turn ideas into valuable solutions and services.
My view
The combination of societal and technical
developments asks for new ideas, vision and new
services
We need to create new business
models and new forms of interaction between enterprises,
governments and citizens. Since real time data-driven
applications are transforming all social and economic
sectors, it is important that consumers trust the systems
they use and that they are in control of the data they
produce, use, and share.
Frank Koopman
After decades of growth, we are now about
10 percent of the way into what the Internet has in store
for our business and personal lives. Soon, everybody
will be using the Internet, empowering themselves
to get what they want, when they want it, from wherever
they are.
At the same time social and economic interaction between
people, businesses and governments are undergoing a
fundamental change and new rules of the game and
governance models are needed for the future digital
societies. The new generation has lost hope in the
political system and the economic model. The current
institutions are no longer able to provide the
conditions to build the future.
New services will provide new types
of communications between consumers, businesses and
governments, from many to many, between stable
communities, ad-hoc communities, based on common
likes, etc. They will also provide support for
cooperative communications that facilitate teamwork,
co-creation or putting ideas together. In addition, new
types of communication will appear since technology will
provide options that are unavailable to us in the
physical world, such as cutting distances and times and
eliminating the language barrier. It will also be easier
to find networks with common likes. People will always
be available, active, connected and locatable, and will
have help remembering everything.
Each day we get closer to a new phase of the Internet that will make today's
version seem primitive. Not only will this next-generation Internet
be orders of magnitude faster, but it also will be always on,
everywhere, natural, intelligent, easy and trusted.