Dan Armstrong

Managing Consultant, Takashi Mobile / Co-Founder, Rabo Mobiel B.V. (Amsterdam)

Mr. Armstrong is curently working on projects in television, content and transactions security and has worked in 2009 to bring mobile web access, banking and payments applications in developing countries, focusing on East Africa. 

One of the founders of Dutch GSM Service Provider Rabo Mobiel in The Netherlands in mid-2005, Dan served on the board of directors as CTO for four years responsible for product, telecommunications and mobile financial services products, innovation and technology strategy. 

Prior to Rabo Mobiel, Dan was responsible for mobile, internet and strategy business lines in  companies like Telfort, British Telecom, MCI, Proxicom, Netscape and worked on 22 MVNOs in Europe, Asia and North America including Virgin Mobile, easyMobile, Sony M’Club, Talkline, retailer, ethnic-focused and business service providers.

Amsterdam-based Rabo Mobiel is a highly-successful daughter-company of Rabobank, the large Dutch cooperative consumer bank with approximately 50% market share in the banking marketplace.  Rabo Mobiel launched nation-wide services in The Netherlands in November 2006 targeting Dutch consumers with Postpaid and later Prepaid mobile services, as well as over a dozen new mobile financial services and mobile banking applications in 2007-09 including mobile banking, mobile payments (P2P and merchants) and contactless payments programmes