Filiz Yilmaz
RouteViews Strategic Adviser
Filiz enjoys connecting people, businesses and ideas. She works as an independent consultant, via her own business, GoodNets, a boutique consultancy. She provides strategic advisory in relation to interconnection, connectivity, network, datacenters, business, eco-system and partnerhip development as well as market analysis, Internet governance and policy matters. Among her clients over the years are Subspace Inc, Asteroid International, PeeringDB, Namex, LEBIX, Vaultica Datacenters and RouteViews.
During 2022-2025, Filiz Yılmaz served as the Director of Business Development Interconnection EMEA at Equinix, where she lead the development of long-term interconnection ecosystems and strategies, identifying investment opportunities and technology trends driving the evolution of digital strategies in the region. Previous to that, she held senior roles at RIPE NCC, ICANN and Akamai Technologies.
Filiz has worked in the technology sector for almost three decades. She began her career helping to develop early internet services in her native Türkiye in late 90s. She created and delivered training courses for public officers in the city of Ankara and the Middle East Technical University, introducing newly developed Internet services and building capacity among end-users. Filiz was the author of numerous publications on operating systems and Internet usage and also served on ethics committees working to accommodate Internet services and building governance and registration services around them. Filiz subsequently moved to Amsterdam, Netherlands, where she has since been based.
Throughout her career, Filiz has been an active contributor in the Internet community. She has held various volunteering positions relating to Internet governance and policy matters, including the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) Multistakeholder Advisory Group (MAG), the ICANN ASO AC (Chair) and IANA RC, RIPE Programme Committee (Chair) and Internet Society Türkiye Chapter as a catalyst during its formation. Filiz also volunteered on the Ethics Committee at the University of Amsterdam and is regularly invited to speak as a guest colloquia lecturer in the university’s System & Network Engineering programme on Evolution of Internet and Internet Governance.