Our Company
Our Company
About IOEMA Fibre Ltd.
The project company, IOEMA Fibre Ltd., was, after 4 years of project development, founded in 2023. IOEMA is a state-of-the-art, high-capacity, 1600 km repeatered submarine fibre optic project that will arc across five key northern European markets – the UK, The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Norway. An extension to France is currently under consideration. The single core 24 fibre pair system will support a minimum overall capacity of up to 1.0 Pb/s.
Executive Management Team
Eckhard Bruckschen
Chief Executive Officer
Eckhard Bruckschen is the CEO/Owner of IOEMA Fibre Ltd.. He is a Master Mariner and MBA with more than 30 years of experience in the offshore submarine cable industry. He has operational experience of plough and trenching/ROV operations; fibre optic, power, umbilical, and flexible pipe installation; remedial works; and burial and bridge operations. His onshore experience includes FEED studies, project construction and installation management, equipment development, capital budget management, and system support and engineering, as well as bid management and sales. He has installed and managed more than 40,000 km of submarine fibre optic cables and 2,500 km of submarine power cables worldwide.
Chris Schmorleiz
Project Controller/Project Manager Landing Points
Chris Schmorleiz is the Project Controller and Landing Points Project Manager for IOEMA Fibre Ltd. He is a Construction Manager specialising in process refinement and stakeholder management.
Advisory Board
Eckhard Bruckschen Chair of the Advisory Board
Andrew Parsons
Commercial Strategy & Business Development Advisor
Jonathan Everest
Subsea Engineering Advisor
Lynsey Thomas
Subsea System Advisor
Pamela Gidi
Commercial Strategy Advisor
PhD. Ingrid Puillat
Sensor System Advisor (EMSO-ERIC)
Robert van Tuinen
Strategy Advisor (The Netherlands)
