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René Buch is the Chief Technology Officer at EOSC Association since May 2022.
Before joining EOSC Association, he was involved in NORDUnet, the Nordic Infrastructure for Research and Education, during 16 years. He has evolved an all ready capable network organisation to a service oriented e-Infrastructure company. René headed the evolution of the NORDUnet Network into a Dark fibre based versatile infrastructure enabling a range of services for the Nordic user communities. In addition to the NORDUnet Network René Buch has added the capabilities of NUNOC, the Nordic University Network and Infrastructure Operations Centre to the NORDUnet portfolio of services. René Buch represent the Nordic Countries in the GEANT2 Policy Committee. René Buch also previously served as Director at the DANTE Board, member of the GEANT Executive Committee and as Chairman for the GEANT Innovation Committee.
Before NORDUnet, René was working at MCI (Now Verizon Business) where he served as Managing Director and board member for MCI in Denmark and Norway and as the company representative with the Telecommunications Industry association in Denmark.
Prior to this René Buch has significant international experience within Design, Installation & Maintenance of high availability computer and communications systems for a number of large international companies. He holds a B.Sc. degree in computer engineering from Odense University College of Engineering supplemented with management courses from acknowledged Management Schools.