Sebastiaan Foppema

Sebastiaan Foppema is the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer for instED. As a strategic leader, he brings 20 years of global experience in technology, healthcare and institutional investments, and a track record of building, transforming and managing teams that deliver business results. He has extensive management experience across business development, sales, operations and professional services.

Prior to instED, Sebastiaan was the Chief Executive Officer of SmartShift Technologies, a leading enterprise software management company, where he grew the business and secured multi-year agreements with Fortune 100 companies, including Airbus, BMW, Proctor & Gamble, Corning, Nestle, and NBC Universal.

Sebastiaan holds a Masters in Computer Science from Delft University of Technology and completed the Greater Boston Executive Program at MIT Sloan.