151:, with Shay Banon, Uri Boness and Simon Willnauer. Elastic is a search company that builds self-managed and SaaS offerings for search, logging, analytics, and security use cases. Under Schuurman's leadership, the company became one of Europe's fastest-growing technology scale-ups. In the first 2 years of his tenure as CEO, Schuurman raised various rounds of venture capital investment from
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September 2018, Schuurman has been a board member at the Rijksmuseum Fund foundation. As of January 2020, Schuurman serves on the board of Techleap.nl. Schuurman's initial philanthropic activities took place through the foundation he founded in 2014, FutureNL. This foundation aims to bring
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In 2020, Schuurman founded The
Dreamery Foundation, which aims to positively contribute to keeping our planet habitable for future generations. The foundation financially supports existing initiatives that contribute to achieving its mission. Schuurman has credited the extensive research of the
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Entertainment is a full-service media & production company, which creates and produces content through ventures integrating film & television, music, branded entertainment, commercials & digital content. Schuurman serves on the board of directors of Atlantis
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October 2018 Elastic went public on the New York Stock Exchange for an introduction price of $ 36 per share and an opening price of $ 70, indicating a 94% jump. Elastic is listed as ESTC. Currently, Schuurman serves on the board of directors of Elastic as a non-executive board director.
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Schuurman explicitly reported not to be a member of any political party, including D66 and Party for the
Animals. The stated objective of his donations was to support those parties who have the most rigorous and actionable, comprehensive plans for climate action, and long-term thinking.
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digital literacy to primary and secondary schools in the
Netherlands. According to the foundation, it currently reaches over 60% of primary school children and 40% of secondary school children. Schuurman currently serves on the board of FutureNL as chairman. In 2021 Schuurman joined
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December 2009, Schuurman left VMware to come back to JTeam as the CEO. During his 2 year tenure as CEO, Schuurman acquired several companies with JTeam, growing the company by 500%. JTeam rebranded to Orange11 and was acquired in 2012 by the Danish software company Trifork.
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