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Biography of Biography of Keith Mitchell

Keith Mitchell was first involved with what is now known as the Internet 17 years ago, as a postgraduate at University College London. Between 1986 and 1991, while working for Edinburgh-based Spider Systems, Keith was a representative on the board of the UK Internet Consortium.

In early 1992, he became one of the founders of the UK's first commercial Internet provider, PIPEX.

From May 1996 until September 2000, Keith served in the full-time role of Executive Chairman of (LINX), the London Internet Exchange. He has served as a non-executive Director of Nominet UK, and as Chairman of the RIPE NCC Executive Board (1997-99).

In September 2000, Keith became a founder investor in XchangePoint, a pan-European commercial provider of Internet interconnect and peering services, of which he is Chief Technical Officer. XchangePoint has now grown to serving over 100 customers in London, and has recently started operations in Hamburg, Germany.

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