Raymond Jetten was born in the Netherlands, but made a permanent move to Finland in December 1988. Having started out in the ISP industry more than 20 years ago, working for a small ISP, he has since taken on a variety of roles in the field, and played a key role in several mergers, including EUnet.
At present, Raymond works for a Finnish Telecommunications ICT and online service company, Elisa Oyj, where he is mainly involved in IP number management and peering. He has been active in the RIPE community since 2006, his interests including IPv6, routing and community driven projects.
Raymond is also a RIPE NCC Executive Board member.