Key People

Management

Dr. Gilbert Houtekamer

Founder and Director. He is the key mind that IntelliMagic's technology originates from. He is focused on strategic innovations that enhance the offerings for IntelliMagic customers.

Els Das

CEO and Founder. She is focused on running a healthy company with high standards and thriving employees, such that the organization can deliver the highest possible value to customers.

Jaco van den Bosch

CFO. He set up the planning and control cycle for the entire company. He believes in making finance a real business partner, delivering a strong contribution to achieving the organization’s objectives.

Brent Phillips

Managing Director of IntelliMagic in the Americas. He started the IntelliMagic US operations in 2005. Since then he has steadily grown the customer base with a team of intelligent and motivated people.

Rudolf Huber

Rudolf Huber is the Managing Director of IntelliMagic in Germany. His team provides IntelliMagic's products and services to the German, Austrian and Swiss markets.

Brett Allison

VP of Operations for IntelliMagic in the US. Besides being involved in all aspects of US operations he also works on company-wide strategic initiatives.

Jean-Marc van der Kolk

Jean-Marc is the Product Manager for IntelliMagic’s software solutions and enjoys interacting with customers all over the world.

Wim Oudshoorn

Wim is the lead of IntelliMagic’s Research team and active in developing innovative ideas for our offerings.

Todd Havekost

Todd is a Senior z/OS Consultant. After experiencing as a customer the visibility IntelliMagic Vision provides into z infrastructure, he now enjoys helping customers derive great value from their SMF data to improve performance and availability.

John Ticic

John is Senior Consultant and is involved in product development in the z/OS area. He started his mainframe career in 1984 and maintained, tuned, and upgraded a large number of MVS systems.

Jerry Street

Jerry is Senior z/OS Consultant at IntelliMagic and has assisted many z/OS installations across the country. He always loves customer interaction, providing world-class consultancy using his life-long expertise.

John Baker

John Baker, Senior z/OS Consultant at IntelliMagic, has been working with mainframes for over 25 years, both as a customer and consultant. His primary focus has been on system and application performance.

Jack Opgenorth

Jack works for IntelliMagic as Senior Consultant - z/OS. He has enjoyed working for a variety of organizations and has been involved in IT Infrastructure optimization for over 30 years.

Katja Denefleh

Katja is Senior Consultant and part of IntelliMagic’s DACH and global consulting team. She has extensive mainframe tape knowledge and has worked as a z/OS systems programmer at various large sites in Germany.

Merle Sadler

Merle Sadler is a senior consultant with IntelliMagic focusing on tape performance for Oracle/STK VSM and IBM TS7700 environments.

Sally Mir

Sally is a Senior Db2 Consultant at IntelliMagic and has worked with Db2 for z/OS since 1990. Sally enjoys helping customers with their Db2 performance issues, and writing articles and blogs about Db2.

Joe Hyde

Joe is a Senior Technical Consultant at IntelliMagic after 32 years in high-end disk performance. He has extensive mainframe experience with I/O intensive applications, channels and IBM storage, as well as EMC and HDS disk storage.

Dennis Moore

Dennis is a Senior z/OS Consultant at IntelliMagic. He has enjoyed working with a wide variety of customers in mainframe performance and related technologies for more than 30 years.

Management

Technical Experts