Executive Board and Supervisory Board


In consequence of increasing activities in the field of world wide digital registration and inventorying of Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage, the Foundation MuseumDepot.org has been transformed into CulturalHeritage.cc Foundation since 2007.

Members of the Supervisory Board

Martijn Sanders, Chairman;
Jan L. Sebel, Vice-Chairman;
Arent van Wassenaer, Secretary;
Rik Vos, board member

Floris Guntenaar continues his research and development work as CEO of CulturalHeritage.cc Foundation. He is supported by Cees List as general consultant.

Martijn Sanders has a Doctoral Degree Management Science of the Economnic University in Rotterdam, Netherlands and a Masters Degree in Business Administration of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. For almost 25 years he used to be the Managing Director of Het Concertgebouw, Amsterdam. From 1997 until 2005 he was Chairman of AVRO, Dutch public radio and television broadcasting network. Being a collector of art himself he occupies with greatest interest positions in Advisory Boards of various public and private organizations in the international field of culture. He is intendant of the Dutch/China Foundation for Cultural Exchange. Martijn is Commander of the Order of Oranje Nassau and Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Jan L. Sebel is in daily life working as audit partner for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Besides providing audit services to a variety of clients, he is chief of the Amsterdam office. His clients are operating in the public sector; e.g. culture and leisure. Further Jan has a number of Board memberships, in which he mostly takes care of the role of the treasurer. These memberships are in the cultural area. Jan has experience in auditing financials, setting up internal control systems for organisations and due diligence reviews. He used to fulfil the Human Capital role for eight years.

Arent van Wassenaer is a lawyer and partner with Allen & Overy and has been in legal practice since 1983. He advises contractors, consultants, employers, sponsors and lenders on all issues arising out of large real estate, development and infrastructure projects, both contentious and non-contentious. Arent is involved in the development and implementation of "cutting edge" construction law developments in The Netherlands, such as DRB's, Market Consultation, Unsolicited Proposals, the Standard DBFM Contract and the Competitive Dialogue tender procedure, as well as Alliances. He was a co-chair of the International Construction Projects Committee of the IBA until 2005. He is on the board of the National Foundation De Nieuwe Kerk.

Rik Vos is former Director General of the Netherland Institute for
Cultural Heritage (1996-2003), ICN, which manages one of Netherlands'
largest collections: that of the Dutch State, comprising all objects not
accounted for by the State Museums - a total of more than 170,000 items.
ICN participated - with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Gemeentemuseum The
Hague and Delft University of Technology - in the presentation of the
web application of CulturalHeritage.cc Foundation - at the time named
MuseumDepot.org Foundation - at the International Council of Museums
Conference 2001 in Barcelona.
Art historian Rik Vos worked for the educational department of the
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and was Senior Lecturer of the Art
History Department of the Groningen University. Before his appointment
to his post with ICN he functioned as Director of the Fries Museum
(Frisian Museum, 1990-1996). He occupied/occupies seats on the board of
various heritage organizations, a.o. as Chairman of the Netherlands Museum Association.

Floris Guntenaar is a designer and the initiator of CulturalHeritage.cc Foundation. He was earlier also the initiator and founder of CINEKID Film and Television Festival, Amsterdam. He designed several itinerant exhibitions: Berlin/Amsterdam, The World of Anne Frank, Das Akt Foto, One Hundred Years of Jazz, 'Art and Kitsch', 'That's Jazz': the Sound of the 20th Century (for this exhibition Floris designed a concert hall and acoustic 'direct sound' speakers.) As a costume and theatre designer he has worked for DutchTelevision, the Netherlands Opera and numerous Dutch theatre companies as well for the Aspen Music Festival in the USA and for the Science Water Park in Toyama, Japan.
Some work

Cees List used to be General Manager of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, from 1983 until 1997. He was project manager for 'The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985' jointly organized with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and for the commemorative exhibition 'Piet Mondriaan, 1872-1944' organized and presented in 1994, 1995 and 1996 at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Cobra Movement in 1998 he worked as Acting Director of the Cobra Museum for Modern Art on various commemorative exhibitions around the world.

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