Ownership and Management CDMatics is a consulting and service bureau for e-business. The company is privately owned with a limited liability (BV) and registered in Amsterdam. Shares are held by Taurus Holding BV a private capital investment company owned and run by Jonne van der Drift
Jonne has extensive experience in international marketing and business development of products and services based on media technology. Started career in the travel and entertainment industry in student jobs with Avis, American Express and MAM Records. Following the fun and success in these jobs he left university to form his own incoming travel company serving large US tour operators, seminar and conference organizers and artist management agencies.
Paving Europe's Digital Highways When the company was taken over, he switched career paths to explore the emerging new media industry and got hooked by the opportunities and challenges of media-technology and on-line services to become "one of the true pioneers who pave the highways of the future" as quoted in Elsevier Magazine in 1987.
He worked for ITT World Directories as a manager in marketing, sales and new product development for Yellow Pages, Europages and the electronic directories. Then, as a business consultant he held general management positions at a Dutch cable-TV news operator and a videotex network for PC users. When he merged the network with KPN he became responsible for marketing their national value added services. At KPN he discovered the need for networked multimedia and decided to co-found CDMATICS in a partnership with Philips.
At CDMATICS Jonne served as Managing Partner and Co-Founder based on his personal concept to extend scope of the just released Philips multimedia platform with networked applications enabling home-shopping, e-learning, and e-banking including Albert Heijn and Neckermann. He successfully drove product development resulting in purchase of product line and source codes by Philips.
Upon purchase of source codes in 1996 he changed focus of work to consulting for client companies with revenues ranging up to Euro 8 billion. From then he developed & managed projects ranging up to Euro 1.5M for past and present clients as ABN-AMRO, Robeco, KPN and Neckermann.
jan 1993 - launch TeleCD prototype, world's first networked multimedia application
jun 1995 - launch TeleCD Authoring Toolkit and TeleCDi-Assistant (modem)
oct 1996 - Philips acquires source codes TeleCD
jan 1997 - Jonne van der Drift acquires full control on stocks and management
jan 1998 - focus on e-commerce consulting
Since then numerous international companies and government organizations use our consulting services on e-business development. Customers include ABN·AMRO Bank, Albert Heijn, Bose, European Commission, Festo, Gilde Investments, Dutch Ministry of Transport and Communication, Philips, KPN Telecom, RAI, Robeco and Surfnet.
1998 - 2005 Mid 1998 Jonne became closely involved in a major e-commerce Internet project with Neckermann both as a strategic consultant and as a projectmanager. Underlying projectgoals aimed for integration of new interactive marketing and ICT disciplines with existing organizational and technical infrastructures in a complex international environment. Other projects include the identification and development of new business opportunities through partnerships and most recent the design of a new contact center strategy to better serve the buying needs of customers and the marketing needs of Neckermann.
2005 - 2009 In 2005 and 2006 CDMatics further helped define and implement entry strategies for some European retail corporations debuting on the versatile and multi-cultural Dutch mass consumer market. In 2007 Jonne lent a helping hand in the development of new service concepts on the pre-competitive converging interactive media market. From September 2007 to March 2009 Jonne was responsible for the design and management of a re-organization program for a leading international IT-reseller aiming to regain market position and further allign its multi-channel management proces.
2009-present
Since mid 2009 Jonne is involved in business development on the now fast expanding mobile marketing market leading several initiatives in various sectors of the e-commerce sector in both the Netherlands and Belgium.