About us
Our ambition
We are a great mix of people with different experiences, backgrounds, educations and nationalities.
Frits Klok
Founder & CEOFrits is responsible for the strategic course and the operational day-to-day running of Tiledmedia. He is an experienced operational and change manager with a background in the media and networking industry.
Tiledmedia is his second start up; Frits founded a start-up in the satellite space in Sydney in the mid 00’s.
Ray van Brandenburg
Founder & CTORay is responsible for the overall technology direction and architecture of our ClearVR products. In addition, he leads the development of ClearVRCore, the underlying basis of our client-side SDKs.
Before founding Tiledmedia, he developed world’s first Tiled Streaming solution back in 2010. Ray is active in the standardization of different media technologies, with several IETF RFCs on CDN technology, adaptive streaming and media synchronization on his name, and actively contributing to MPEG standards. Ray holds over 30 patents.
Arjen Veenhuizen
Founder & COOArjen runs Tiledmedia’s operations, is responsible for the design and implementation of the cross-platform client software development kits. Furthermore, he manages Tiledmedia’s employees.
Before founding Tiledmedia, he was a key member of the team that developed TNO’s Tiled Streaming technology, and he is a skilled expert in heterogeneous media synchronization. He was the architect and main developer of the “NUlive” live streaming platform, which he created together with Ray. Arjen loves interacting with his colleagues and customers.
Rob Koenen
Founder & CBORob is a media research manager with 30 years of experience and many national and international leadership positions. He has a huge network in the media industry, which he uses for Tiledmedia business development.
After co-founding the VR Industry Forum, he became the Forum’s first President. Rob guided the market adoption of MPEG/ITU AVC as Founder and President of the MPEG Industry Forum. He initiated and has guided the work on MPEG-I, the standard for Immersive Media in MPEG.
Randolf Nijsse
CIORandolf is Tiledmedia’s Chief Investment Officer: a deal maker and investment expert with a telecommunications background. With 20 years of experience in the mobile, fixed and satellite communication industries,
Randolf is active in the fields of corporate development, corporate strategy, M&A, financial advisory, and equity & debt financing.
Mimi Lounio
VP Marketing & SalesMimi is our VP of Marketing and Sales with a background in IT sales and technology & innovation marketing. She joined Tiledmedia from a hypergrowth startup that rapidly became the global market leader.
Mimi is responsible for our growth strategy, including putting it into concrete action. She wants to thoroughly understand technology acceptance, and enjoys her work with customers, partners and colleagues on innovative projects.
Marius van Eck
VR Software EngineerWith his background in mathematical sciences and specifically quantum mechanics and quantum crypto, Marius is Tiledmedia’s latest hire, working on Tiledmedia’s VR encoding tools and platforms.
Lorenzo Goldoni
VR DeveloperWith his Computer Science Master's degree from the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, and a background in (VR-)gaming, Lorenzo develops our VR apps and contributes to our SDKs. He also builds tooling for optimizing our codebase.
Dr. Xavier Corbillon
Projection and Algorithm ExpertXavier is our expert on VR projection and streaming methods. His doctoral thesis was on those very subjects and now he is devising and improving the algorithms we use to encode, package and stream high quality VR. His GPU coding skills are legendary.
Sophia Smit
Office ManagerSophia is our Office Manager, creating order in the chaos of our ever-growing office and work force, and doping much more than just office management.
Tse-Kang (Stan) Shen
Software DeveloperStan is our all-round software developer. He currently focuses on bringing ClearVR to PC-based platforms but helps out in other areas as well.
Glenn van der Meer
BD Manager Greater ChinaGlenn is our Chinese-speaking business development manager for Greater China, the land of endless VR possibilities. When he is not travelling across China in high speed trains or airplanes, he lives in Hangzhou where Tiledmedia's Chinese office is located.
Mees Kern
VR Software EngineerMees studied programming and game design at the Breda University of Applied Sciences. Together with Lorenzo, he develops client-side technology and demo applications, for iOS devices and various headsets.
Min Huang
Front-end DeveloperMin moved from Taiwan to The Netherlands, where she studied Design for Interaction at TU Delft. She combines that Industrial Design Background with a role as Front-End Developer at Tiledmedia, designing and creating our customer-facing tooling.
Nina Gray
Marketing ManagerRecently graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a Master's in Corporate Communication, Nina is Tiledmedia's Marketing Manager. As the job title suggests, she is responsible for our marketing and communication, worldwide.
Sergio González
VR Software EngineerSergio González Fernández has a background in high-energy physics earned at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He shares a hardcore math background with Marius and Xavier. At Tiledmedia, he puts his math knowledge and software engineering experience to good use as a VR Software Engineer.
Gabriël Dorothal
Online Marketing InternGabriël studies International Business & Languages with a minor in Digital Marketing at the University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam. He helps Mimi with customer/partner acquisition projects. He also works on the website and all social media channels.
Jelle Koedam
Software Engineer InternJelle is our Software Engineer intern. He studies Computer Science at the University of Applied Sciences in Rotterdam and works together with Mees on making a debug app for the ClearVR SDK for Android.
Stay tuned!