Bernardo Kastrup

Stepping back into the role of CEO to get the company through Series A and complete its first chip.

R&D responsibility for creating the company's key AI technologies.

Setting up an early-stage, stealth-mode AI hardware start-up. Got the company through seed round financing, developed and filed key IP, and helped build the technical and commercial teams.

I run the show, with help.

MAIN ACHIEVEMENT: Key role in defining the strategy behind e.g. ASML's acquisition of Hermes Microvision for $3.09 billion in June 2016. RESPONSIBILITIES: Mid- and long-term corporate and product strategy and roadmap, with focus on applications.

MAIN ACHIEVEMENT: Created and rolled-out a new service business from scratch and grew it to 8-digit yearly Euro revenues in less than 3 years, with the highest margins of any business in the company. RESPONSIBILITIES: World-wide marketing for ASML's "Holistic Lithography" products and services; definition of customer message and value story; definition of business models; product strategy; development of customer-specific applications; product roll-out and customer penetration strategies; value quantification; internal and external communications, etc.

MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS: Carried out an in-depth market investigation that led to the halting of a programme that would otherwise have cost ASML millions of dollars with insufficient return on investment. RESPONSIBILITIES: Overall marketing and business development for the Business Unit Incubator Products; Product definition and roadmap; Direct world-wide responsibility for customer engagements; Market analysis and sales forecasts; Market and product roll-out strategy; Securing lead-customers; Negotiating advance orders and commercial commitments; Competitive analysis and strategy.

URL: http://www.asml.com MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS: Proposed, motivated, and championed the acquisition of California-based Brion Technologies Inc. by ASML for $270 million in December 2006; Leading role in proposing ASML's "Holistic Lithography" strategy. PRESS QUOTES: "The Brion purchase is a 'great acquisition', said analyst Gary Smith, president of Gary Smith EDA." (EE Times, 18 Dec 2006) "The lithography toolmaker has shown that it knows which way the wind is blowing." (editorial by Aaron Hand, Semiconductor International, 1 Feb 2007) RESPONSIBILITIES: Supporting the Board of Management with strategy and business planning; Driving the process of decision and execution of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A); Steering the due-diligence of companies; Collecting and maintaining market intelligence (strategic, commercial, and financial) on potential growth markets; Assessing the strategic and financial impact of opportunities; Supporting ASML Ventures in assessing start-up companies.

Silicon Hive was sold to Intel Corporation in 2011: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/17/intel_buys_silicon_hive/ MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS: Secured Silicon Hive's first paying customers; Expanded the business into digital imaging applications (Silicon Hive was initially focused on telecoms), which ultimately motivated Intel to acquire the business. RESPONSIBILITIES: Member of the Management Team responsible for creating and managing key customer accounts in Europe, USA, and Asia; technology evangelization; devising customer value propositions and unique selling points, and having them reflected in the companies' products; addressing the value-chain in the telecom, digital imaging, and wireless networking markets; defining product and technology strategy; creating and managing strategic partnerships; working as a bridge between engineering and commercialisation; technical marketing and communications (B2B).

URL: http://www.research.philips.com MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS: Successfully proposed, set-up, and managed a major R&D project in the field of digital signal processing; Founded a whole new business out of the results of this project (Silicon Hive, see above). RESPONSIBILITIES: Pulling together multidisciplinary R&D projects; leading teams of 10+ highly-skilled people in a horizontal structure; finding and convincing business sponsors and senior project members; exploiting synergies across key disciplines; project management, with responsibility for achieving defined objectives; Generating technical and scientific insights, designs, and Intellectual Property in the fields of compiler technology, microprocessor architectures, and corresponding applications.

URL: http://www.cern.ch MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS: Created the first realistic data collection and organization algorithm for feature extraction in one of the particle detectors (the Calorimeter) of the ATLAS experiment, part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator. RESPONSIBILITIES: Engineer working on the design of massively-parallel and distributed computing systems; responsible for running a hardware test laboratory used by a team of over a dozen people; designing parallel software algorithms for implementation in large CPU farms; having sufficient understanding of physics to meet the design requirements of physicists.

Thesis on microprocessor architectures and compiler technology; Emphasis on Reconfigurable Computing; Automatic hardware/software partitioning and hardware synthesis; Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs); Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and logic optimization; Digital Signal Processing (DSP).