Management & Board
Management
Ramses Valvekens: Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Ramses Valvekens is the Chief Executive Officer of Easics, since the management buy-out in December 2004.
Besides his role as CEO, Ramses remains active as a systems architect, focusing on technology selection, project risk reduction and cost-effective mixed-signal ASIC and FPGA design trade-offs. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences and gives lectures in semiconductor system design.
He holds a Master degree in Electronics Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and Groep T in Leuven, Belgium.
He performed research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories (California, USA) and at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (France).
In 1994, he won the Barco/VIK prize for the design of a reconfigurable processor for industrial image processing in cooperation with IMEC.
He has been working at Easics since 1997. During the TranSwitch period, he was technical manager of a product family of mixed-signal telecom chips. He received the TranSwitch Employee Recognition Award in 2003 and is co-inventor of two telecommunication patents.
Steven Coenen: Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
Steven Coenen is the Chief Technology Officer of Easics, since the management buy-out in December 2004.
He holds a Master degree in Computer Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
He has been working at Easics since 1998 and has developed most of the Easics in-house EDA tools to support Easics' design methodology.
He is an all-round hardware/software guru and a vivid GNU/Linux adept.
He is the inventor of a patent on the verification of telecom protocols.
Board
André Oosterlinck: Chairman of the board
Prof. Dr. Ir. André Oosterlinck is Honorary Rector of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and chairman of the Association K.U.Leuven. In 1984 he was appointed full professor at K.U.Leuven and from 1984 to 1994 he was director of the division Electronics Systems Automatization and Technology (ESAT). He became vice-president for the exact sciences at K.U.Leuven in 1990 and was rector and president of the K.U.Leuven from August 1995 until July 2005. He has also been visiting professor at Utah University (1984) and ARC-IBM, San Jose, USA (1986-1996).
Mr. André Oosterlinck is a founder, co-founder or director of numerous companies and institutes, including Icos Vision Systems (now KLA-Tencor, USA), IMEC (Belgium), Leuven Research & Development (Belgium).
He graduated as an electronics engineer at the K.U.Leuven in 1972 and obtained a PhD bio-computer science (1977) and a special PhD electrical engineering (1981). He specialized at JPL-NASA (Pasadena, USA) and at several American universities where he supported research in the area of information technology, knowledge engineering, signal analysis, robot vision and biomedical image interpretation.
Ramses Valvekens: CEO and director
See above.
Steven Coenen: CTO and director
See above.
Jan Decaluwe: Founder and director
Jan Decaluwe is one of the founders of Easics in 1991. He served as Easics' Design and Methodology manager until 2002.
Jan obtained a Master degree in Electronics Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1985 and performed research at the IMEC research laboratory from 1985 to 1988.
He performed research at the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil) from 1988 to 1990 and worked at Alcatel Bell (Antwerp, Belgium) from 1990 to 1991.
He is also the creator and maintainer of MyHDL, a hardware description language.
Besides being an Easics board member, Jan is currently also a senior design expert at Easics.
Jan Zegers: Founder and director
Jan Zegers is one of the founders of Easics in 1991. He served as Easics' General Manager through May 2000, when Easics was merged with TranSwitch (USA). After the merging with TranSwitch, Jan became Easics' Engineering Manager until 2004.
Jan obtained a Master degree in Electronics Engineering from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1984. After his military service, he joined the IMEC research laboratory where he performed research in the field of digital VLSI automation.
Besides being an Easics board member, Jan is currently also a senior design expert at Easics.
Shareholders
Easics is a privately owned company.
Easics Memberships
Easics is a member of the following organisations:
