Frans de Rooij is Director Product Marketing for ADAS and AD in the Automotive Business Unit at TomTom, based in Amsterdam. In his previous roles at TomTom he was product manager for TomTom’s real-time Traffic and Speed Cameras services.
Prior to TomTom, Frans worked as strategy consultant at Arthur D. Little and in several product management and sales & marketing roles.
He holds an MSc in physics from TU Eindhoven, a PhD in applied maths from Cambridge University and an MBA from the University of Warwick.
The Pop in your Job – What drives you, what’s your passion?
I love connecting technological possibilities with market needs. Artificial Intelligence and related technologies provide a great opportunity to make autonomous driving safer and more comfortable, and I like contributing to making this a reality sooner.