Jaap was a senior consultant at a renowned consulting firm in the medical device industry. He combines strong experience in design control for multi- disciplinary design teams, compliance and regulations with a pragmatic, result driven approach at various levels: strategic, management, operational and execution. From his degree in mechanical engineering, working in the industry with software and electronics and his experience in scientific research, he can deal with a broad range of devices in the active device area.

Background: Jaap was senior consultant in the medical device industry working on a variety of active device project, including software. Prior to this position, Jaap was manager Research and Development for more than 10 years at a manufacturer of medical devices. He was responsible for the development of active medical devices. Dealing with design control of the multi-disciplinary (embedded) software, electrical and mechanical engineering) design team and regulatory affairs. Prior to this position Jaap was a project manager embedded software engineer at a company developing embedded industrial electronics. He started his career at a university research center, focusing on biomaterial-tissue interactions, working on the development of a broad range of research equipment, e.g. ellipsometry, digital imaging and drop shape analysis.