Johannes Scholtes, Chairman and CEO at ZyLAB

Johannes Scholtes serves as the chairman and chief strategy officer of ZyLAB, a provider of high-frequency e-discovery services for corporations, law firms and government agencies.

ZyLAB also provides support related to regulatory requests, mergers and acquisitions, contract recovery and review, the Freedom of Information Act, investigations and audits, according to the company’s LinkedIn profile.

Scholtes served as president and CEO from 1989 to 2009, leading partnerships with the United Nations, War Crime Tribunals, the FBI-Enron investigations and the White House, ZyLABS said.

In 2008, he was appointed as a full professor in text mining within the artificial intelligence group at the Department of Data Sciences and AI of the University of Maastricht’s Faculty of Science and Engineering.

He later spent two years as a member of the board of directors of the Association of Information and Image Management, a global authority for standards and education in enterprise information management, according to his LinkedIn profile.

In his profile, he said he is a senior research fellow of the Dutch School of Information and Knowledge Systems, a research school established in 1996 and accredited by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Scholtes served as a lieutenant in the Royal Dutch Navy prior to joining ZyLAB. He earned a master’s degree in computer science from the Delft University of Technology and a doctorate in computational linguistics from the University of Amsterdam.

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