Toon Coppens (Belgium, 1981), graduated as a Master of Science in Informatics at the University of Ghent.
In june 2000, during his first year at university, he successfully launched the first Belgian social networking site, which later became Redbox.be, and is now part of Netlog.com, which has acquired over 40 Million members in six months. Netlog.com is now an Alexa(tm) global top- 100 site and is Europe's leading social portal.  He is a co-founder of Netlog NV/SA. As CTO he is responsible for the development, design, deployment and operations at Netlog.