Nilco Boven

Nilco Boven has over 30 years of work experience in various roles and industries. Nilco is currently the VP Customer & Partner Enablement at Cognite, where they oversee the Academy, Support, Managed Services, Community, and Partner Enablement. Prior to this role, they served as the VP Academy and Customer Support at Cognite.

Before joining Cognite, Nilco worked at Mendix as the Senior Director of Global Customer Support and Director of Customer Support. Nilco was responsible for managing customer support operations on a global scale.

Nilco also gained significant experience at Paralax Planning Solutions, where they held the positions of Director of Services and Development as well as Manager of Support. In these roles, they led teams responsible for software development, support, and quality assurance for business applications implemented at customer sites.

Earlier in their career, Nilco worked at ECT (Europe Container Terminals) as a Project Manager/Functional Analyst and Teamleader. Nilco also had a role at Yacht, where they worked as a Functional Analyst/Developer on an assignment for SHB Rotterdam.

Nilco's career began at Delaware Computing as a Programmer.

Overall, Nilco Boven has a diverse background in customer and partner enablement, customer support, services and development management, and software development.

Nilco Boven obtained a Master's degree in Computer Science from Utrecht University. Nilco attended the university from 1986 to 1991.