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Since March 2013: Eric Thelen B.V.
Via Eric Thelen B.V., I am providing innovation consultancy support.
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November 2010 – February 2013:
Philips Home Healthcare Solutions
Senior Director Strategic Projects
and Business Development
The Philips Healthcare Business Group Philips Home Healthcare Solutions
covers activities in Sleep and Respiratory Care,
Personal Emergency Response Services and Remote Patient Monitoring.
In a staff position reporting to two of the General Managers,
I participated in several strategic initiatives and coordinated R&D activities.
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September 2007 – October 2010:
Philips Home Monitoring
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
The Business Unit Home Monitoring is part of Philips Healthcare's Business Group
Home Healthcare Solutions and covers activities in
Personal Emergency Response Services and Remote Patient Monitoring.
As Chief Technology Officer reporting to the General Manager, I was a member
of the Management Committee and I was responsible for Research & Development,
for the Quality & Regulatory function (FDA Class II Medical Device Manufacturer)
and for Product Operations (Manufacturing, Order Management, Distribution,
Supply Chain Management).
My team launched a Cordless Phone product in 2009 and Lifeline with AutoAlert
(fall detection solution) in 2010.
We introduced a new FDA-compliant quality system and successfully passed an FDA audit.
I was in charge of the transfer of all product operations activities from our
Business Unit headquarters to the headquarters of the larger Business Group.
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October 2005 – September 2007:
Philips Research – Vice President and Sector
Head Digital Care Solutions (e-Health)
As Sector Head, I was responsible for four research departments in three
countries (The Netherlands, Germany and India) and for the e-Health research
focal area.
Within my sector, a lab venture on pointing as user interaction
technology, an incubator business on patient communication in hospitals
and an incubator business on ICT-enhanced toys have been started.
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January 2004 – September 2005:
Philips Research – Department Head
Medical Signal Processing
The Medical Signal Processing department focused on Personal Healthcare
and on Medical Imaging.
We started the EU project MyHeart.
I led a deep dive study on implantable technologies that led to a new
research program. I supported the initiation of a new Business Unit
on Consumer Health and Wellness.
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December 2000 – December 2003:
Philips Research
Department Head Man-Machine Interfaces
The Man-Machine Interfaces department focused on Automatic Speech
Recognition and related technologies.
I had program management responsibility for the domain
user-interface-enabling technologies.
I supported the start of an incubator business on dialogue-based interaction
with home equipment as well as the sale of two Philips speech recognition
businesses.
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October 1999 – November 2000:
Philips Spin-out Project Spridge, Inc.
Founder & VP Operations
Spridge, Inc. was a Philips spin-out project focused on the Internet speech
portal "mySpeech". Together with two other founding members, I initiated this
start-up out of Philips Research. In the small team, I was mainly responsible for
operations. We launched the world-wide first Internet speech portal and
demonstrated it at the Comdex trade show in 1999.
The term-sheet for our venture capital deal, which valued our start-up
at $ 17.2M, was withdrawn when the market for Internet businesses took
a hit in April 2000.
We ultimately transferred the technology to a Philips Business Unit.
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July 1994 – September 1999:
Philips Research
Research Scientist Man-Machine Interfaces
During my time as a research scientist in the field of Automatic Speech
Recognition, I worked on feature extraction techniques (reduced data rate
for speech recognition features approx. by factor of 2) and on speaker
adaptation algorithms (reduced error rate for specific speech recognition
systems by more than 50%).
I was project manager for speech recognition for large vocabulary
medical report dictation and for speech recognition over the Internet.
The latter project was selected for a business seed phase and the
project team was transferred to California in early 1999.
