I am living with my wife, Martine, and two children, Joris and Marijke, in San Jose, California. Link for more info
Today, I am the CTO and a Senior VP at Xilinx.
Xilinx is a fabless semiconductor company. Its main product is FPGA microchips (Field Programmable Gate Arrays). These semiconductor components form the heart of most electronics infrastructure, ranging from wireless basestations to Internet routers, as well as consumer electronics products such as flat panel displays and multimedia systems in cars. Xilinx is the market and technology leader with 1.9 Billion $ revenue.
FPGA technology combines programmability and very high performance. As such these products fuel the next generation of the Internet by providing unprecedented flexibility and unmatched performance to communicate, process and interprete real time data.
I am holding a PhD from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.