BoekHoudoe

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EFFECT Photonics

VP Finance & Infrastructure and Co-Founder

As CFO, co-founder and member of the Senior Management team of EFFECT Photonics I headed Finance & Control, Tax, Treasury, Legal, GRC (Governance, Risk, Compliance), HR, Recruitment, Facility and office management. In less than 7 years we grew the Company from <10 to >200 heads with presence in 4 countries (The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Taiwan and the US) closed multiple financing rounds (debt/equity) and won several (European and Dutch/UK governmental) R&D subsidy projects and grants, such as the H2020 SME Phase 2 instrument.

EFFECT Photonics delivers highly integrated optical communications products based on its Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical System-on-Chip technology. 

As a spin out of the prestigious Technical University of Eindhoven, EFFECT Photonics takes a platform approach to integration using high-yielding building blocks within the wafer. Growing different quaternary alloys of Indium Phosphide on a single wafer means that all of the active and passive optical functions of a system can be created within a single chip, which is then combined with simple packaging, designed for high-volume, low-cost manufacture from the very start.

The key enabling technology for DWDM systems is full monolithic integration of all photonic components within a single chip and being able to produce these in volume with high yield at low cost. With this capability, EFFECT Photonics is addressing the need for low cost DWDM solutions driven by the soaring demand for high bandwidth connections between datacenters and back from mobile cell towers.
EFFECT is backed by Venture Capital.

CFO and Co-Founder

SecurityMatters

SecurityMatters is a Dutch-based company that develops cutting-edge network monitoring, intelligence and protection technology to make its customers more secure and in control. SecurityMatters has developed a completely new approach to secure computer networks, called self-configuring deep protocol network whitelisting, which is the result of more than 20 years of research and experience in the field of network intrusion detection.
The company was founded in 2009 by Damiano Bolzoni, Sandro Etalle and Emmanuele Zambon to bring this new technology to the market. SecurityMatters was acquired by ForeScout (FSCT, NASDAQ) for $113M in 2018.
SecurityMatters has business in a number of control industries (oil & gas, power generation, energy distribution, etc.) and financial institutions. Its flagship product - SilentDefense - has been used in production since 2011. SecurityMatters is collaborating with large solution providers and system integrators to expand its market beyond Europe.
In 2016 SecurityMatters succesfully completed a financing round by 4 prime investment groups.

Zanders

As an M&A executive I was responsible for my own business development/P&L, from generating my own dealflow to closing the M&A deals. ZANDERS is recognized as a European leader in treasury management, risk management and corporate finance. From our offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom and Switzerland, we service corporates, financial institutions and organizations in the public sector all over the world.

Executive Consultant M&A

KPMG

Audit

BoekHoudoe.nl, co-founder
CFO 
KPMG Almumnus

Entrepreneur with passion for disruptive technologies

Skills: CFO with 30 yrs expertise in building start-ups/scale-ups, Finance, Fundraising, M&A, Business Valuation, Governance Risk Compliance, Treasury, Accounting, Audit, Tax, ERP, Legal

2013-2022: Co-founder, CFO/VP Finance EFFECT Photonics (highspeed/low cost data transport over fiber optical networks, semiconductor). EFFECT acquired DSP technology/team from Viasat Inc., (NASDAQ: VSAT) now one of EFFECT's strategic investors (2022).

2014-2016: CFO SecurityMatters (cybersecurity). SecurityMatters was acquired by Forescout Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: FSCT) for $113M

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