Patrick De Schutter

Currently growing Mailfence, one of the leading private and secure communication tools for professionals and SMEs. In 1995, I co-founded and scaled my first company - Allmansland.com - one of the pioneering web agencies in Belgium. In 1996, I co-founded IP Netvertising, Belgium's first Internet advertising sales firm. Fast-forward a few years to 1999 when we launched Contactoffice (Mailfence's parent company) with my long-time business partner Arnaud Huret. At the time, ContactOffice was among the pioneers of cloud software in Europe. After the 2013 global mass surveillance revelations by Edward Snowden, it became obvious to us that online privacy around the world was threatened. That is when we decided to dedicate our time to making Mailfence one of the most private and secure comm...