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Speaker

Frans de Rooij

Director Product Marketing ADAS and AD, TomTom

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.

Company

TomTom

In 1991, we had one big ambition for our small start-up: make technology easy to use for everyone. We challenged the status quo, placed big bets and innovated to create breakthrough products that would change the way people lived their lives. Today, we are still entrepreneurs, driven to make things better for our customers and push the boundaries of what we are capable of. We have 4700 global “Intrapreneurs”, employees who treat the company as if it were their own, and who have the freedom, flexibility and ability to make decisions that advance the company’s success. Our people are the reason we are where we are today. Our core technologies and products are directly attributed to the level of skills, thinking and focus that made us great in the first place. We attract the best people, feeding their desire to excel by enabling them to do their greatest work. At TomTom, we power the future. How? We are taking a front seat in contributing to the future of driving, we are outperforming in both Telematics and Maps and we are creating innovative consumer products at a level beyond competitor standards. It’s an exciting time to join TomTom, and we want you to be a part of our journey.