General Counsel Imagine Nation
Rein Everard started his legal career in 1993 at the leading Dutch law firm Houthoff Buruma, practicing commercial law and corporate law for national and multinational clients.
In 1999 he founded his own in-house consultancy boutique, serving companies like AFC Ajax and Ahold and UPC on various long term projects.
In 2005 he combined forces with Kees Abrahams at 2waytraffic, which got listed at the London Stock Exchange in 2006 and was sold to Sony in 2009. Being a Senior Vice President at Sony Pictures Television until 2012, Rein was responsible for overseeing the handling of all of SPT’s legal functions and matters outside the US territory. Rein joined Imagine Nation as the company’s Chief Legal Officer in 2013. Rein Everard got his Civil Law master degree at the University of Amsterdam and specialized in International Trademark Law at the Grotius Academy.