Education
In 1991, he broke off his Doctor of Philosophy research in Computer Science at the Universiteit van Amsterdam to found a company called Palmtop Software with his former university mate Peter-Frans Pauwels.
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Career
This company was later renamed to 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.
