CJ Koomen co-founded Securealink in 2000 which was acquired by SafeNet in 2002. Since then he has been an entrepreneur advisor board member chairman and interim CEO for many start-up initiatives. Before founding Securealink Koomen held several high-level positions at large multinational corporations such as President and CEO of the Philips Digital Video Group President of Philips Semiconductors North America Executive Vice President of Philips Semiconductors and President of the Communications & Multimedia Business Group. Koomen has also been employed as a systems engineer at Philips Telecommunications Systems a CAD and software manager at Philips Corporate Product Development General Manager of an IC Design group at Philips Research and CTO at Philips Communications Systems. He started his career as a radio frequency engineer at RVO/TNO in The Hague and was also a research engineer at Philips Research in Eindhoven in the areas of telecommunications and computer science. Koomen holds an MS and holds an award winning PhD from Delft University in The Netherlands. He was also a part time professor at Eindhoven University of Technology. |