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April 2008 – now Xilinx San Jose, CA
Xilinx is a fabless semiconductor company and is the leader in its segment of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) with a total revenue of 1.8B$ .
Chief Technology Officer , Senior Vice-President
Senior Vice President with responsibility for advanced development.
2001– April 2008 Xilinx San Jose, CA
Chief Technology Officer, Vice-President Direct report to the CEO. Heading corporate research with the objective to develop new technologies for the advancement of existing business and to create new business opportunities.
The research organization is spanning projects from developing system solutions in telecom and DSP to software programming tools and advanced circuit and manufacturing technologies.
Next to this, his responsibilities include corporate strategy and product portfolio management.as well as business development. This includes the incubation of new business units and the management of the company’s Venture Investments and Merger and Acquisition strategy. He is managing a 250 M$ corporate venture fund.
As part of the new business unit incubation responsibilities, he has been responsible for the creation and management of the Xilinx Design Service BU which achieved break-even, after 6 months in operation as P&L organization.
1994–2001 IMEC Leuven, Belgium
IMEC is the world’s largest independent research and incubation company in the field of Nano-electronics and Information Technology
Vice-President Design R&D
During his tenure, the research division grew from 40 researchers with an annual contract revenue of 2 Million $ to a group of 200 R&D engineers with an annual R&D contract revenue of more than 20 Million $.
During this same period he created 5 spin-off companies based on the research activities of his team : Sirius Communications (wireless communications, WCDMA, chip set), Coware (tools for hardware/software co-design), Target Compilers (retargetable compiler), Smartmove (automotive infotainment platform) and Septentrio Communications (GPS chip set) . One joint venture was established in the field of Wireless LAN with US based company, Resonext , which was later acquired by RFMD.
His responsibilities included the creation of the business plan, the raising of money from VC’s, the negotiation of IMEC’s equity stake in return for transfer of IP-rights, the hiring of founding team and the bring up of the startup during first 6 months.
1989–1994 IMEC Leuven, Belgium
Director
Director of the Applications and Design Technology group, focusing on the development and application of new chipsets for mobile communication terminals. He was responsible for the implementation of programmable spread spectrum transceivers for satellite communications. This included the chip design of DSP and RF functions as well as embedded software.
1984–1989 IMEC Leuven, Belgium
R&D Manager
Joined IMEC from the start of the company.
Started and lead a small research team working on the development of EDA tools for VLSI circuit verification and simulation.
1981–1984 Catholic University Leuven Belgium
Catholic University Leuven is the highest ranked university in Belgium
PhD Researcher and Teaching Assistant
Working on the development of CAD tools for the electrical verification of VLSI circuits and on mixed-mode simulation.
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