Pieter Varkevisser

Pieter Varkevisser is the Chief Executive Officer of SDL Tridion. He joined the company 1 April 2004. As CEO, Varkevisser leads the company's strategic direction to increase SDL Tridion's profitability and success. Based in Amsterdam, Varkevisser is building on the organisation’s strong results and good customer relationships, whilst harnessing the local expertise of regional offices at a corporate level.

Prior to joining the company, Varkevisser was CEO of Data Distilleries B.V (which had previously been experiencing many challenging years) and which he now had brought back to being profitability in 2003. Before joining Data Distilleries he worked 18 years in product development and held management positions at several companies including CTO with Exact Holding N.V. As CTO and member of the Board, he was responsible for the technical policies and the product development of the Exact Group. As Managing Director, he was directly responsible for the development centres of Exact in Delft, Dublin and Kuala Lumpur. Other responsibilities were the outsourcing of development projects to companies in Yugoslavia, India and the Philippines.

Varkevisser holds Master’s degree in Mathematics from the Technical University of Delft.