Marco Brandstaetter

Marco works as Business Development Consultant for DE-CIX, the world’s largest IX, and is responsible for the Balkan region, Middle East and South Asia. His current focus is on developing UAE-IX as the first 100 percent neutral IXP in the Middle East. Coming from a software development background, Marco founded HAPPYsoft, a software development company, in 1992, and HAPPYnet, one of the first ISPs in Austria, in 1995.

In 2003, Marco founded i3b and from that time on he focused on the field of telecom wholesale. After driving forward i3b’s internationalization as wholesale partner for last mile and MPLS connections and finally selling IP transit, the company was sold to its biggest wholesale customer (2010) and ever since Marco worked as independent consultant in the telecom industry.