The Takashi Team
Although Takashi was launched to facilitate telecommunications start-ups, it has grown at various times in the last 10 years to create new companies, complete large and complex business planning projects -- Takashi is primarily led by Dan Armstrong and headquartered in downtown Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Takashi maintains a group of expert partners which it considers to be area experts and has worked extensively with in the past. These professionals are brought in on projects to add knowledge or support in many business areas, and periodically join customer projects together as well.
Dan Armstrong
Dan Armstrong (1970) has been working on projects in retail banking distribution, mobile banking and payments, mobile telecommunications strategy and products, NFC and transactions security, marketing, product feasibility, negotiations, project management, internet and mobile applications and products since moving into technology business 1994.
Within Takashi, he is responsible for 40+ projects and start-ups, consulting engagements and product launches - focusing on alternate telecommunications models, alliances, mobile financial services (mobile banking, mobile payments, electronic banking channels and security), as well as mobile hardware and software security.
Prior to Takashi, Dan was responsible for for internet, mobile and strategy business, development and team management within Telfort/British Telecom in The Netherlands and spent a number of years in the United States working in the internet industry as a team manager at MCI and Proxicom responsible for three business lines: insurance, banking, manufacturing and telecommunications. Projects included work for companies like Netscape, PepsiCo, Aetna, Traveler's Group, Kemper National Insurance, Tarmac America, Georgia-Pacific, SAAB USA, TelecomUSA, VISA Interactive, marketplaceMCI, Major League Baseball, Owens Corning, Dun and Bradstreet, and Radisson Hotels.
Teele Horstra
Teele Horstra (1965) has extensive experience in the information technology, banking, credit card, telecommunications and renewable energy industries spaning more than 25 years. Teele specialises in IT and business architecture, project management, strategy and market consulting, business support/intelligence and start-ups. Teele has deep, specialty expertise in business solutions design, wind energy, complicated programme delivery challenges, supply-chain management and payment systems.
Responsbile for large portions of the design and launch of Rabo Mobiel, where he served as CIO/COO for 4 years, Teele has also served numerous other clients, including Rabobank, Waterland Private Equity Investments, ZyLAB, Achmea, Mediakabel, Virgin Mobile, UniXS, Telfort Mobile, Sony 2Connect, and UniqueAir. Prior to independent consulting, Teele held positions within large multi-nationals like American Express and ING Security Life.
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Dan Armstrong
Teele Horstra