Director on DANTE’s Board and CEO of Nordunet
René Buch joined NORDUnet in 2005 and heads the evolution of the NORDUnet Network into a Dark fibre based versatile infrastructure that enables a range of services for the Nordic and Global user communities. René Buch represents the Nordic Countries in the GÉANT2 Policy Committee and has also been a member of The Nordic Council of Ministers eScience Workgroup.
René Buch came to NORDUnet from MCI (Now Verizon Business) where he served as Managing Director and board member for MCI in Denmark and Norway and as the company representative with the Telecommunications Industry association in Denmark. Prior to this René Buch has significant international experience within Design, Installation & Maintenance of high availability computer and communications systems for a number of large international companies. Adding to this René has substantial experience within IT Education and Training and a broad operating systems background within UNIX & Windows OS.
René Buch holds a B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Odense University College of Engineering which has been supplemented with management courses from several acknowledged Management Schools.
