# Diederik Karsten

> Diederik Karsten is a startup investor at Liberty Global. See 0 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Liberty Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/liberty-global)
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diederik-karsten-337978105

Diederik Karsten is a startup investor at Liberty Global. Diederik Karsten is Executive Vice President, European Broadband Operations for Liberty Global and is based in the Company's headquarters in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Mr. Karsten oversees the day-to-day operations of Liberty Global's broadband operations in 10 European countries, spanning 16 million customers and 27.7 million RGUs. Mr.Karsten is also a director of Telenet Group Holding NV, a Liberty Global subsidiary, and a Belgian public limited liability company.In his prior role, Diederik Karsten served as Managing Director, UPC Netherlands since 2004. Before joining a predecessor of Liberty Global Europe, he served as CEO of KPN Mobile (Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and others) and served as a non-executive Board Member of Easyjet PLC in the UK. Before that time, he held various management positions at PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble in the Netherlands, the US, Germany and the UK. Mr. Karsten serves on the board of directors of Telenet Group Holding NV. He holds an MBA from Erasmus University in Rotterdam.

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## About Liberty Global

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Liberty Global provides video, voice, and broadband Internet services primarily in Europe, Japan, and Chile. The company offers various broadband distribution services over its cable television systems, including video, broadband Internet access, and telephony. It also provides video services through direct-to-home satellite or multi-channelmultipoint distribution systems; analog video services consisting of basic programming and expanded basic programming; digital cable services comprising basic programming and premium services, as well as pay-per-view programming, including video-on-demand and near-video-on-demand, digital video recorders, and high definition television services; and broadband Internet access services. In addition, Liberty Global provides telephony services that include circuit-switched telephony services and voice-over-Internet-protocol (VoIP) telephony services, as well as offers mobile telephony services using third party networks. Further, it owns programming networks that provide video programming channels to multi-channel distribution systems owned by it and by third parties. As of December 31, 2008, Liberty Global owned and operated networks that passed approximately 34,275,100 homes, as well as served approximately 15,608,200 video subscribers, 6,201,300 broadband Internet subscribers, and 4,644,300 telephony subscribers. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

5 contacts available at Liberty Global.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Adrian Drury | Group Technology Strategy & Insight Director | — |
| Andrew Cole | Member of the Board of Directors | — |
| Baptiest Coopmans | Member of Executive Leadership Team | — |
| Diederik Karsten | Executive Vice President | — |
| Larry Romrell | Member of the Board of Directors | — |

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