PHARROWTECH - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Co - Founder & VP Engineering, Radio Systems & SW
Carl co-founded Pharrowtech and brings more than 23 years of experience in analog RFIC design and management, and a passion to engage people in innovation, with a focus on consumer electronics. He began his career at RF Magic, an early phase RFIC Startup in San Diego, CA, where he became design manager and helped build the start-up ahead of its merger and IPO. In 2013 he returned to Belgium to join design services house AnSem (now part of Cyient) where he architected NFC and RFID ASICs for pre-IPO customers. Since 2015, Carl has consulted for a tier-1 smartphone chip supplier where he built the team that subsequently developed a significant RFIC IP which is now utilized in many of the world's most popular mobile phones. Carl holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering and a PhD, both from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- General Manager - North America
Christian is responsible for building Pharrowtech's presence in North America. Prior to joining Pharrowtech, he was Vice-President of Engineering at Hortau. In his 25+ year career in high-technology, Christian has led marketing and engineering teams at companies in Silicon Valley and Canada, including Broadcom, Altera, Actel and Tabula. Christian has an MBA from Queen's University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Université Laval in Canada.
Job Titles:
- HR Manager
- Member of the Leadership Team
- HR Manager / Learn More
Claudia drives the strategy and process of building, developing, and engaging an exceptional team to achieve Pharrowtech's mission. She brings an extensive experience in international Human Resources, most recently as HR Lead for EMEA and APAC at OneSpan. Prior to that, she held various International HR Business Partnership roles at DellEMC. Claudia holds a BA in History and a Masters' degree in Communication Studies from the Université Catholique de Louvain.
Job Titles:
- CFO
- Member of the Leadership Team
- CFO / Learn More
Filip is responsible for Finance & Risk at Pharrowtech. Prior to joining Pharrowtech, Filip acted as international Corporate Finance advisor for multiple companies in Semicon, Pharma, Financial services, Fintech and was involved in several deeptech startups in Asia and Europe. As an expert in M&A and strategic thinker he advises companies in their growth and expansion path and is well connected with investment partners to support their financial needs. Filip holds a bachelor degree in Accounting and Tax law and a Master in Finance from EMS Brussels.
John has been a leader of companies and business units for more than 30 years across a wide variety of industries including semiconductor, materials, and human interface devices. He has served as CEO for a variety of companies including the 60GHz wireless technology company SiBEAM, electronics materials company Cambrios, and contactless connector company Keyssa. Earlier in his career, John was vice president of the Consumer Electronics BU for Silicon Image, where he led the company's successful launch and commercialization of the HDMI standard. He was VP Engineering and a member of the founding team of Arithmos, an early pioneer in flat panel display interface chips. John received his BSEE from the University of California, San Diego and did graduate research work in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech under Carver Mead.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- VP Operations / Learn More
Kees leads Pharrowtech's Operations and Manufacturing activities. He combines 25 years of industry experience in semiconductor and telecommunication, covering various technical and managerial roles in start-ups and large multi-nationals. Through his career he has focused on network architecture and chip design, followed by leading product development and quality initiatives to enable mass manufacturing. Prior to its acquisition by Qorvo, he led GreenPeak's operations from scratch towards company profitability in a highly competitive and cost-sensitive market, through multiple consecutive years of exponential growth, and shipping over 100M devices. Kees holds a MSc in Applied Physics and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Technical Leadership Team
- Co - Founder & Member of Technical Staff
- Specialist
Khaled is a specialist in system and IC design for mm-wave wireless applications with more than 10 years of experience in mm-wave CMOS IC design R&D. As chip architect, Khaled led the development of imec's latest generations of 60 GHz phased-array transceivers. He holds a MSc degree from TU Delft and a PhD from VUB in collaboration with imec. He worked with Scenario Design Services and spent 2 years at Infineon Technologies.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
- VP Engineering, Digital Systems and SW
Micky is responsible for Wireless Architecture at Pharrowtech and leads the Digital System and Software group. Prior to joining Pharrowtech, Micky was CEO of Celestia UK and before then co-founder and VP of Modem at Blu Wireless. Over the past 25 years, Micky has managed several large technical programmes in Silicon and System design, developing products based on 3GPP, 802.11 and 802.16 standards; often with changing commercial priorities and financial constraints. He is an expert in PHY and MAC layer topics - with specialities in Radio Communications, Digital Signal Processing, Detection Theory, Stochastic Signal Processing, Control Theory, CDMA and OFDM. Micky is entrepreneurial by nature and enjoys the thrill of building and working in start-ups. He has a PhD from University of Southampton and is a Senior Member of the IEEE (SMIEEE).
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Syntiant Corp
- Independent Chairman of the Board
Pieter is a Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Syntiant Corp. Previously, he worked at Cadence Design Systems, where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the IP Group. Before that, he spent nearly 20 years in leadership at Broadcom with roles including Senior Vice President of Operations Engineering, responsibile for world-wide manufacturing technology and hardware programs from inception through to high-volume production. During his time at Broadcom, he was also Vice President and Chief Architect, Central Engineering, developing core IP for use throughout the company. Pieter started his career as a research scientist at Philips Research, developing high-speed data-converters. He holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Twente in The Netherlands, and is the named inventor of more than 125-issued U.S and European patents.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Technical Leadership Team
- Co - Founder & Member of Technical Staff
- RF Designer
Qixian is an expert RF designer with over 8 years of experience in mm-wave frequency synthesis and distribution for wireless transceivers and automotive applications. He was a key contributor to the first standard compliant 60 GHz transceiver prototype in imec and has been responsible for several projects with top-class industry partners. He is passionate about transferring research results into commercial products. Qixian holds an MSc degree from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and a PhD degree with highest honor from Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Leadership Team
- CEO & Co - Founder / Learn More
Wim founded Pharrowtech in 2019 and leads it since then. He has more than 15 years of experience focused on mmWave R&D, first as a researcher and later as a program director for imec's activities in cellular, WiFi and mmWave transceivers. In that role, he was essential in shaping the R&D roadmap and business opportunities for emerging wireless technologies. Wim was also a visiting researcher at UC Berkeley, focused on researching 60GHz high speed wireless communications. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and a degree in Business Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.