WG Chair Biographies

Raymond Jetten was born in the Netherlands, but made a permanent move to Finland in December 1988. Having started out in the ISP industry more than 20 years ago, working for a small ISP, he has since taken on a variety of roles in the field, and played a key role in several mergers, including EUnet.

At present, Raymond works for a Finnish Telecommunications ICT and online service company, Elisa Oyj, where he is mainly involved in IP number management and peering. He has been active in the RIPE community since 2006, his interests including IPv6, routing and community driven projects. 

Raymond is also a RIPE NCC Executive Board member.

Chris lives in Berlin and has been attending RIPE Meetings regularly since RIPE 56 in 2008. He is currently the co-chair of the RIPE IPv6 Working Group.

His first contact with IPv6 was in 2004 at the non-profit and volunteer-driven ISP, Individual Network Berlin e.V., where he has been chairman of the board since 2002.

He was a Network Engineer and Team Lead Network for nearly 14 years at STRATO AG and deployed IPv6 in a network for a few million domains and tens of thousands of servers.

Since 2019, Chris is Network Consultant, Information Security Officer and Team Lead Professional Services at system.de GmbH and also supports their subsidiary Route 128 GmbH which is specialised in IPv6.

Nico Schottelius is an IPv6 advocate who works at the IPv6 first DataCenterLight.ch data centre. His daily work revolves around designing and maintaining IPv6-only networks. He enjoys pushing back the boundaries of what is possible without IPv4. In 2019, he received his MSc from ETH Zurich, his master's thesis was on the implementation of NAT64 on an FPGA.

You usually meet Nico at conferences such as RIPE and, if he's not there, you can find him in the beautiful mountain valley of Digital Glarus.