Merijn Terheggen

Current

• CEO at FactLink
• Founder at Kalooga

Past

• CEO at Kalooga
• VP of Partnerships & Alliances at Endymion Systems Inc.
• CTO at ZNOW Inc.

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Education

• University of Maastricht

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Merijn Terheggen’s Summary

High tech and internet start-ups, marketing and sales of technology into mainstream markets.

Professional Experience:
- CEO & founder, Kalooga Inc.
- VP of Partnerships & Alliances, Endymion Systems Inc.
- CTO & founder, ZNOW Inc. (acquired by Endymion Systems in 2002)
- Consulting to- and coaching of entrepreneurs
- Raising funds and venture capital
- Large scale search engine design and product management
- Product architecture and analysis

Professional Passion:
My passion is to create disruptive products that enable large business opportunities. I focus on transforming technology into products that can service mainstream markets. This means understanding how a product creates value in the real world and how to connect to sales channels and enable partnering opportunities

Professional Objectives:
- Create a rapidly but balanced growing organizations, coordinating efforts between sales, marketing, and engineering teams
- Strategic & Product marketing and product design in a highly intellectually challenging environment while working together with exceptionally talented people to create high-value products
- Product management and engineering approaches to make happen what was previously impossible

Merijn Terheggen’s Specialties:

- Search engines and internet media business
- Start-ups
- Integration of technology and business

Merijn Terheggen’s Experience

• CEO

  FactLink

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  September 2009 — Present (3 months)

  FactLink is a social enterprise that aims to change the world by making its information available.
  
  We do so by incentivising stakeholders. FactLink is not a search company, it's a community collaboration company.
  
  FactLink is currently in stealth mode.

• Founder

  Kalooga

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  December 2003 — Present (6 years )

  Pioneering gallery search

• CEO

  Kalooga

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  December 2003 — April 2009 (5 years 5 months)

• VP of Partnerships & Alliances

  Endymion Systems Inc.

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2002 — October 2002 (7 months)

• CTO

  ZNOW Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  2000 — April 2002 (2 years )

  - Design of the core data structures and algorithms
  - Product integration with existing platforms and third party products

Merijn Terheggen’s Education

• University of Maastricht

  MSc, Medical Sciences (Master degree, Med-school) , Neuro Sciences, Philosophy, Ethics of Science , September 1994 — August 1998

  Scored within the top 2% scores of the last 10 graduating classes (1988 – 1998)