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Eindhoven, NB, NL

Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands

Setting up an early-stage, stealth-mode AI hardware start-up.

Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands

I run the show, with help.

Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands

MAIN ACHIEVEMENT: Key role in defining the strategy behind e.g. ASML's acquisition of Hermes Microsystems for $3.09 billion in June 2016.RESPONSIBILITIES: Mid- and long-term corporate and product strategy and roadmap, with focus on applications.

MAIN ACHIEVEMENT: Created and rolled-out a new service business (Eclipse) from scratch and grew it to 8-digit yearly Euro revenues in less than 3 years, with the highest margins of any business in the company.RESPONSIBILITIES: World-wide marketing for ASML's "Holistic Lithography" products and services; definition of customer message and value story.

MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS: Carried out an in-depth market investigation that led to the halting of a programme that would otherwise have cost ASML millions of dollars with insufficient return on investment.RESPONSIBILITIES: Overall marketing and business development for the Business Unit Incubator Products; Product definition and roadmap; Direct world-wide.

URL: http://www.asml.comMAIN ACHIEVEMENTS: Proposed, motivated, and championed the acquisition of California-based Brion Technologies Inc. by ASML for $270 million in December 2006; Leading role in proposing ASML's "Holistic Lithography" strategy.PRESS QUOTES:"The Brion purchase is a 'great acquisition', said analyst Gary Smith, president of Gary Smith.

Silicon Hive was sold to Intel Corporation in 2011: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/17/intel_buys_silicon_hive/MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS: Secured Silicon Hive's first paying customers; Expanded the business into digital imaging applications (Silicon Hive was initially focused on telecoms), which ultimately motivated Intel to acquire the.

URL: http://www.research.philips.comMAIN ACHIEVEMENTS: Successfully proposed, set-up, and managed a major R&D project in the field of digital signal processing; Founded a whole new business out of the results of this project (Silicon Hive, see above).RESPONSIBILITIES: Pulling together multidisciplinary R&D projects; leading teams of 10+ highly-skilled.

URL: http://www.cern.chMAIN ACHIEVEMENTS: Created the first realistic data collection and organization algorithm for feature extraction in one of the particle detectors (the Calorimeter) of the ATLAS experiment, part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator.RESPONSIBILITIES: Engineer working on the design of massively-parallel and distributed.

Ph.D., Philosophy Of Mind

Ph.D., Computer Engineering

Thesis on microprocessor architectures and compiler technology; Emphasis on Reconfigurable Computing; Automatic hardware/software.