Mark Kotterink

Mark Kotterink is director of the Dutch Colour Institute (Nederlands Kleurinstituut, SNKI), an independent non-profit foundation in Krommenie, the Netherlands. He is a colour expert with 35 years of experience in colour technology, colour application and colour psychology. He works as a consultant, lecturer and researcher for industry, construction and healthcare.

He has worked with NCS for more than 30 years, as a lecturer and for many years as a distributor. He leads the institute in the second generation: his father founded it in 1976, and he took over the management in 2005.

In a personal capacity he is a member of the AIC (International Colour Association), the ISCC (Inter-Society Color Council) and ASTM. In 2022 he carried out colour research for Qualanod and wrote texts on the handling of colour for the Qualanod standard.