Gérard Hoffmann

He leads the local operations of Proximus, which includes the telecom provider Tango and IT services outfit Telindus. sits on the boards of Cloud Computing Europe Luxembourg, the Fedil business federation and Finance & Technology Luxembourg, and for 20+ years the University of Luxembourg. Earlier in his career, he worked at the steelmakers ArcelorMittal and Arbed. He attended ETH Zürich, the University of St Gallen and Stanford University. His hobbies include basketball, jogging and travel.

Patrick Houtsch

Patrick Houtsch took on the top job at the CTIE, which provides IT services to the national government and public bodies, in 2019, after serving as deputy director for 5 years. He’s responsible for a budget of more than €200m and 500+ staff. Previously he was managing director at Govcert.lu, the computer emergency response team, and head of CTIE’s security and audit department. Earlier in his career, he was a systems engineer at the state savings bank Spuerkeess. He graduated from the University of Liège.

Minh Hua

She’s led the big four consultancy’s IT operations since 2022, after serving as CIO at the pharmaceuticals supplier Minafin Group and materials outfit Magotteaux. Prior to that, she was IT director at GSK Biologicals and a business analyst at Unilever Belgium. Minh Hua attended the University of Liège and is a certified Lean Six Sigma black belt. “She believes in the importance of team collaboration as it creates and fosters the further development of an organisation’s mindset and culture,” her bio reads.

Sabika Ishaq

She was promoted from within to lead cybersecurity at the accounting and advisory firm in January 2023. Previously she held information security positions with SES Satellites and Cyberwayfinder. chairs Women Cyber Force and Women4Cyber Luxembourg. Previously, she was a communication facilitator for the Italian energy group Eni, in Milan, and helped organised the UN Forum 2012 conference, in London. She studied at the University of London and London School of Economics.

Nataliia Iskra

She took up her current cybersecurity role in 2021, after serving as head of billing at Clearstream and earlier as an economist at Metinvest in Ukraine. Shifting companies into the cloud “is one of the most important activities for the next 5 years which will give an advantage of being fast, flexible, and keeping on creating values instead of only running operations,” Nataliia Iskra said earlier this year. She studied at New York University, the Luxembourg School of Finance and Luxembourg School of Business.

Tom Kettels

He’s driven the Luxembourg blockchain development initiative since 2019 and serves on the policy group at European Blockchain Services Infrastructure, an EU programme. Earlier, he was a board member and then chief business development officer at the data centre operator Luxconnect, and advisor at the government’s Department of Media, Connectivity and Digital Policy and at the former state-backed economic promotion agency Luxembourg for Business. Tom Kettels studied at Ichec Brussels Management School.

Christian Kettmann

He’s been helping to keep the country’s train network running--by supporting staff and operations at the Luxembourg National Railway Company (CFL)--for nearly 3 decades. Christian Kettmann was named CIO in 2015 and he supervises some 175 staffers. Previously he served as IT production systems manager, DBA/systems analyst, IT instructor and help desk staffer at CFL. He was named CIO of the Year at the ITone gala in 2021. Earlier in his career, he was a computer engineer in the legal department at Foyer Assurances.

Updated, 15 January 2024: Kettmann passed away on 9 December 2023, as reported by . (This profile was originally released in November 2023.)

Serhan Kiymaz

He is “responsible for product development, architecture and engineering process improvements” and “heads up our career development for engineers,” ’s company bio reads. Before joining the regtech startup darling, he was head of engineering at Docler Holding in Luxembourg, and CTO at Metglobal, Bilyonder.com and Segmentify in Turkey, and CTO at Elefant.ro in Romania. He also held positions with Markafoni, TVYO, Turkcell and Vodafone Turkey. He attended Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul.

Cliff Konsbruck

He’s headed up Luxembourg’s backbone telecom provider since 2016, after serving 10 years as Post Telecom’s head of customer services, 8 years as head of IP applications and 6 years as head of internet services. was also appointed deputy managing director of the overall Post Group in 2022. He was named Personality of the Year at the Cisco Belux Partner Awards in 2019. Previously, he was an engineer at Goodyear. He studied at RWTH Aachen University. His hobbies include racing bikes and travel.

Paul Konsbruck

He took charge of the data centre and dark fibre provider Luxconnect in 2021, after serving nearly 6 years as chief of staff and 2 years as communications advisor to Luxembourg’s prime minister. He serves on the boards of Luxprovide and SES, and previously served on the boards of Encevo, Luxconnect and Societe Electricté de l’Our. Earlier in his career, was editor-in-chief of Eldoradio and a journalist and presenter at RTL Radio. He attended Heidelberg University and the Harvard Kennedy School.