Thomas Vollrath is an independent adviser to the web hosting and related digital industries, helping a number of companies and partners to fine tune their strategies, trouble-shoot operational problems, boost product innovation and customer service delivery and increase sales and profitability levels. Prior to this he was, until December 2013, the founder and CEO at Host Europe Group, a provider of technology services such as domain registration, mass hosting, customised managed hosting, cloud hosting and has an emerging software-as-a-service offering. Thomas was an elected Non-Executive Director of Nominet for 4 years; elected by his competitors. He is on the Board of BaseKit.com, diva-e.com, 1-grid.com and Contabo.com.