- Source: Pieter Geelen
Pieter Geelen (born 1964) is a Dutch entrepreneur.
Geelen was born in January 1964 in Hilversum as the oldest child of the illustrator Harrie Geelen and the children's author Imme Dros. In 1991, he dropped off his Ph.D. research in Computer Science at the Universiteit van Amsterdam to found a company called Palmtop Software with his former university mate Peter-Frans Pauwels. This company was later renamed TomTom.
With the €100,000,000 he acquired from TomTom's IPO in 2005, he established the Turing Foundation, a charitable organization.
In 2013 he founded the Mapcode Foundation, another charitable organization which offers the Mapcode system he invented in 2001 with Harold Goddijn.
References
External links
Turing Foundation website
Mapcode Foundation website
TomTom website
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- TomTom
- Renang pada Olimpiade Musim Panas 1996
- Pieter Geelen
- Geelen
- TomTom
- Peter-Frans Pauwels
- Turing Foundation
- Hilversum
- Harold Goddijn
- Mapcode
- Pie Geelen
- Corinne Vigreux
