Our Team

  • Arjen Visser

    Arjen Visser
    Founder, CEO and CTO

          

    Arjen is a technical entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He is most passionate about database technology and especially Oracle database technology. He is driven to create complementary software solutions that are highly effective, simple to use, and in great demand.  He is a well-known figure in the world of Oracle database experts and a frequent speaker at Oracle conferences.
    In his leisure time he enjoys playing tennis and sailing.

  • Eric van der Sluis

    Eric van der Sluis
    Global Business Development Manager

          

    Eric has a focus on building trusted relationships and brings with him over 20 years of experience in the information technology space. Prior to joining Dbvisit Software he held several key sales and management positions with a major New Zealand Healthcare Software development company.
    In his spare time Eric is an enthusiastic Longboarder, swimmer and reader.

  • Mark Ripma

    Mark Ripma
    Advisor

        

    Mark is a service and marketing executive with experience in the United States, New Zealand, and Europe. He has helped three software startups grow into global companies and is now advising Dbvisit on growing North American operations.
    He lives near Silicon Valley and enjoys family time and walking along the beach.

  • Mike Donovan

    Mike Donovan
    Service and Online Delivery Manager

          

    Mike is a skilled Service and Online Delivery Manager who likes to work in a challenging and innovative environment. He has a diverse background in developing software, and is very experienced with Oracle.
    His other interests are: surfing, reading, running and music.

  • Kelly Langi

    Kelly Langi
    Partner Relationship Manager

          

    Kelly Langi has a background in a range of industries working in a sales, marketing and customer service capacity.
    In her spare time she enjoys spending time with family, cooking, gardening and craft.

  • Victoria Atkins

    Victoria Atkins
    Sales, Service & Marketing Coordinator

      

    Victoria has a background in a wide range of industries and has worked in sales, marketing and customer service divisions for many industry leading companies.
    In her spare time she enjoys competing nationally with her many horses, and spending time with her family.

  • Bertie Plaatsman

    Bertie Plaatsman
    Finance

      

    Bertie brings a creative edge to Dbvisit, employing her extensive marketing background to ensure more companies worldwide can benefit from our products. Bertie has a strong focus on customer care and building solid relationships with clients.
    Bertie speaks fluent English, Dutch and German. Based in New Zealand she loves hiking, gardening and art.

  • Vit Spinka

    Vit Spinka
    Lead Product Development

          

    Oracle 11g Certified Master, Oracle 11g Certified Professional, 8 years of Oracle experience Unix/Linux knowledge. Well versed in PL/SQL, Perl and C, strives for perfection with the motto: anything is achievable. He likes to learn something new every day.
    Other interests: classical music, exploring the depths of Oracle.

  • Anton Els

    Anton Els
    Product Development Manager and Architect

          

    Oracle 11g Certified Master. With more than 13 years experience with Oracle Databases, and extensive Solaris and Linux knowledge, Anton is a highly motivated individual who enjoys working in a challenging environment. His certifications include Oracle 11g OCP, Solaris 10 SCSA and Red Hat 5 RHCSA. In his spare time he enjoys playing golf, watching movies, travelling, and going to the theatre.

  • Anna Macnaughtan

    Anna Macnaughtan
    Development & Support

      

    Anna is a certified Oracle DBA with wide knowledge of UNIX/Linux and Perl programming. Anna's experience in software development combined with her background in Oracle database administration brings value to the business.
    She enjoys reading, swimming, movies and travel.

  • Holger Jahn

    Holger Jahn
    Development

     

    Holger has many years of experience in the IT industry. His areas of expertise include software development, systems administration & architecture and business solution modeling.

  • Karen Halligan

    Karen Halligan
    Finance

      

    Karen is a qualified accountant with experience working in a variety of industries providing assistance with all aspects of accounting. When she is not working she enjoys spending time with her family, cooking, gardening, hockey and softball.

  • Mark Becerra

    Mark Becerra
    Sales Executive

          

    Mark Becerra is a successful software salesman who has delighted in seeing customers achieve great improvements through the solutions he has  sold them. His background includes significant time spent in the application areas of ERP, supply chain, and resource optimization. He is fluent in both English and Spanish.

  • Jan Karremans

    Jan Karremans
    Benelux Sales Agent

          

    Jan is a successful Business Development Manager covering the Benelux region in Europe. He is based in the Netherlands. He has an entrepreneurial streak with a strong background in Healthcare, ICT, Oracle and a passion for motorcycles. Jan works hard with organizations to help them maximize their existing investments in Oracle technology.

  • Krupesh Desai

    Krupesh Desai
    Software Support Engineer

          

    Krupesh is an Oracle 10g Certified Associate PL/SQL Developer and Oracle 11g Certified Associate Administrator. He holds two postgraduate qualifications in computer and information sciences: a Masters degree from Symbiosis International University, India and a Post Graduate Diploma from the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is skilled in both database administration and development, and enjoys programming in Perl and C. An adventure enthusiast, in his spare time Krupesh enjoys sky diving and bungee jumping. In his own words, like a true Indian, he loves Bollywood music and dancing.

  • Jakub Sejba

    Jakub Sejba
    Development & Support

     

    Jakub is an experienced Oracle IT professional; an Oracle 10g OCP DBA, who has been working with Oracle since 2005 as an Analyst, PL/SQL Developer and DBA. He has in-depth knowledge of Linux/Unix, Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, building 3-tier web applications, as well as experience in banking, Telco and electric power industries. In his spare time he is an athletics enthusiast who loves rock music, with a lifetime hobby of reconstructioning a small castle.

  • Pierre Leducq

    Pierre Leducq
    Business Development

     

    Pierre joined Dbvisit in 2011 as an International Advisor. He oversees long-term business development for Dbvisit with a primary focus on France. With various experience in companies such as Orion Health (2 years) and Intersystems (18 years), he knows what it takes to embark successfully with new customers and for Application providers and resellers to adopt "best of breed" new technologies.
    Pierre received his international MBA from ISG in France and an undergraduate degree in electronics from ISEN.

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  • Mark Ripma

    Mark Ripma
    Chairman

        

    Mark is a service and marketing executive with experience in the United States, New Zealand, and Europe. He has helped three software startups grow into global companies and is now advising Dbvisit on growing North American operations.
    He lives near Silicon Valley and enjoys family time and walking along the beach.

  • Michael Whitehead

    Michael Whitehead
    Board Member

    Michael is the founder and CEO of Wherescape, a very successful globally operated software company specializing in data warehousing. Michael is a visionary when it comes to data warehouses and software to design, build and maintain data warehouses. He has spent more than a decade designing and building commercial data warehouses for customers in a wide variety of industries. Prior to founding WhereScape, Michael had Asia Pacific responsibilities for data warehousing for Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.

  • Tom McLeod

    Tom McLeod
    Board Member

    Originally from Canada, Tom moved to New Zealand many years ago to work in the IT industry. He has run his own IT start up - Dynamic Transport Management Ltd (now part of Oracle) - and has worked in Silicon Valley. He now works part-time for the NZ Government investing in hi-tech companies and runs his own consulting business advising IT companies on commercialization strategies.

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