Rob is founder of AppliGate, the 'nestor' of education in Lotus software in the Netherlands. He started AppliGate in 1990 and successfully ran it for 20 years. His company specialized in IBM software education and is the oldest education partner for Lotus in the Netherlands. Rob has been in software education for almost his entire life and has successfully trained more than 1000 students himself towards their IBM certification. Not only is he an enthusiastic trainer, he has also been an old-time Lotus evangelist since the early days of Notes R3.
These days, Rob closed the in-house training facilities and continue as consultant and trainer. His dedication to XPages has already created dozens of other XPage addicts.
Besides his love for Lotus software, Rob has a passion for Italian food and artisan's craftsmanship; visit his webshop (voglie.nl) with Italian 'wannahaves'.
