Marco Jacobs

Director Multimedia Solutions, Europe and Asia at ARC International

Netherlands

Current
  • Director Multimedia Solutions, Europe & Asia at ARC
Past
Education
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Technische Universiteit Delft
Connections
294 connections
Industry
Semiconductors
Websites

Marco Jacobs’s Summary

All round specialist in development and sales/marketing of DSP processor IP with a focus on audio, video and imaging applications.

Proven to function well in a wide variety of roles ranging from product definition and management, marketing, business development, applications engineering, project management, people management and teaching.

Marco Jacobs’s Specialties:

6+ years working for semiconductor IP licensing startups, 10+ years working with VLIW/SIMD processor architectures and development tools, 10+ years experience in audio, video and imaging applications, knowledge of 3D and voice.


Marco Jacobs’s Experience

  • Director Multimedia Solutions, Europe & Asia

    ARC

    (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)

    September 2006Present (2 years 11 months)

  • Product Marketing Manager Media Products

    Silicon Hive

    (Semiconductors industry)

    January 2004September 2006 (2 years 9 months)

    Responsible for product marketing and product management for Silicon Hive’s media processing product line. Duties include: market research, defining new video/imaging products and demonstrators, identifying strategic partners and executing partnership agreements, developing marketing material and identifying, guiding and securing customers.

  • Software Architect

    Bosch Security Systems

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

    April 2002December 2003 (1 year 9 months)

  • Director Applications Development

    BOPS, Inc

    (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Semiconductors industry)

    June 1998April 2002 (3 years 11 months)

  • Applications Programmer II

    University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

    (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Research industry)

    October 1996May 1998 (1 year 8 months)

  • Consultant

    Sibbel & Van Pelt New Media Consulting

    (Semiconductors industry)

    19951995 (less than a year)


Marco Jacobs’s Education

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    19951996

    Worked on my Master's thesis here in the field of 3D graphics (virtual reality).
    See http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/us/

  • Technische Universiteit Delft

    Computer Science 19901995

    Activities and Societies:
    Participated in the ACM programming contests at the national and European level.

Additional Information

Marco Jacobs’s Websites:

Marco Jacobs’s Groups:

  •    Mobile TV
  •    Video Compression Experts
  •    VentureOnLine Experts Network

Marco Jacobs’s Honors:

Holds 5 issued patents


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