Duco Sickinghe

Duco Sickinghe is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Fortino Capital. He also served as Board Member at Zentrick. He also serves as Industrial Adviser at CVC Capital Partners. He served as Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director at Telenet. He has been Chief Operating Officer, Callahan Cable, since January 2001. Mr Sickinghe takes-up the role from Chuck Carroll, the current Chief Executive. Under his leadership at Telenet, the customer base has grown from 12,000 to over 300,000, while managing the high growth, start-up phase and through periods of ownership uncertainty prior to Callahan's acquisition of the company in March 2001. Mr Carroll begins a new role, as Chief Technology Officer at Callahan Associates' ish (North Rhine-Westphalia). He will help design and plan the network in Germany's largest cable region. Duco Sickinghe is highly experienced in the European business environment. He has extensive experience of general management in publishing at Wolters Kluwer, in high-technology businesses like Hewlett-Packard and Next Computer and in start-up companies.