Mr Blok has almost 35 years of telecommunications experience at Dutch-based landline and mobile telecommunications company, KPN, where he was CEO for seven years until April 2018. Eelco started his career in Finance at KPN before becoming responsible for businesses including Carrier Services, Corporate Networks and Network Operations. In 2006 he was appointed a member of the KPN Board of Management, where he was responsible for the Fixed Division, Business Market - Wholesale - Operations and Mobile International. He was appointed CEO in April 2011. From 2011 to 2017 Eelco was co-chairman of the Dutch National Cyber Security Council an advisory body of the Dutch government. He was also a Director for the international association GSMA from 2017 to April 2018. Other listed company directorships (past three years) - Director, OTE Group (from 2019). Former - Member of the Supervisory Board of Post NL (2017-2021) and Signify NV (2017 - 2022). Other directorships and appointments include Chair of the Supervisory Board of Fairphone (from 2023, member from 2020). Member of the Supervisory Boards of Koninklijke VolkerWessels N.V (from 2019) and Feyenoord Rotterdam N.V (from 2023). Board Advisor, Spotzer Digital (from 2023), Glasfaser Plus (from 2022) and Glow Financial Services (from 2022).
