Bert Zandhuis

Current

Vice President Sales at Coresonic

Past

Independant Contractor at multiple (Self-employed)
Director of Sales NER at SGI
Vice President Sales at Sagantec

Managing Director Europe at MIPS Technologies
President and CEO at CYCO Automatisering
Country Manager at Cadence Design system
Sales Manager at Mentor Graphics
Major Account Manager at McDonnell Douglas Information Systems
Major account manager at McAuto

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Education

HTS Haaarlem

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Semiconductors

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Bert Zandhuis’s Summary

Senior entrepreneurial business manager experienced in Information Technology,(high-) technical and consumer electronics markets. Used to perform under high pressure and able to manage difficult situations, including restructuring and merging.
Strongly motivating but hard driving people manager with exceptional business skills.
Used to build relationships and conduct business at board level with major companies.

Bert Zandhuis’s Specialties:

Setting up/ Managing global (commercial) operations for a innovative leading Technology, IT or Semiconductor company

Bert Zandhuis’s Experience

Vice President Sales

Coresonic

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

July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

As Vice President sales I have taken responsibility to build Coresonics global business
Coresonic (www.coresonic.com) develops programmable baseband processors combining programmability and flexibility with small size and low power consumption.
With the novel processor architecture optimized for baseband applications and a completely new type of instruction set architecture (offering the performance and flexibility of state-of-the-art VLIW-SIMD solutions but with less control overhead, lower memory cost, and smaller code size) Coresonics enables the ultimate, converged, mobile communication device that supports a full range of communication standards
Independant Contractor
multiple (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2005 — June 2006 (10 months)

During this timeframe I have as independent contractor been responsible for setting up business plan and strategy for the B2B and consumer market at a start-up (Sept/ April) and have worked on the market introduction of KPN's (Dutch Telecom provider) low end solution for fixed telephonie
Director of Sales NER

SGI

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2003 — September 2005 (1 year 10 months)

Rebuilding the local sales organizations to one regional team with clear focus and tasks.
Managing by example
Vice President Sales

Sagantec

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

November 1999 — August 2003 (3 years 10 months)

Responsibility for all business in Europe, Israel and India as well as building and leading the global support organization.
Managing Director Europe

MIPS Technologies

(Public Company; MIPS; Semiconductors industry)

August 1995 — September 1999 (4 years 2 months)

Established MIPS presence in Europe
Licensed Mips processor technology to number of key semiconductor manufactures in Europe/Israel
Business development with key partners to achieve the usage of the Mips based cores inot digital consumer products
President and CEO

CYCO Automatisering

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1993 — August 1995 (2 years 3 months)
Country Manager

Cadence Design system

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1991 — May 1993 (2 years 2 months)

Responsible for BeNeLux operations
Sales Manager

Mentor Graphics

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1988 — January 1991 (3 years 1 month)

Sales Manager Netherlands (Jan 90/ Jan 91)
Global Account Manager Philips (Feb 88/Jan 90),
Major Account Manager

McDonnell Douglas Information Systems

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 1984 — January 1988 (3 years 2 months)

Major Account Manager (Jan 87 to Jan 88)
Sales Engineer (Nov 84 to Dec 86)
Major account manager

McAuto

(Computer Software industry)

December 1984 — January 1988 (3 years 2 months)

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