Bios

From a young age, Roderik knew he had a particular knack for the sciences, specifically inorganic chemistry to understand the minerals he was collecting. After graduating from the Technical University Delft, in Delft, Netherlands with his Masters in Chemical Technology and Catalysis, Roderik spent several years as a technology manager where he invented and patented an improved tape process and was responsible for the scale-up and development of ultra-thin ceramic foils for multilayer ceramics. In other words, Roderik had found his calling.

Ralph was born and raised in Maastricht. With a keen interest in figures and logical models, he studied Applied Mathematics at the University of Technology in Eindhoven. After his studies he built his career in the High-tech Eindhoven area for 30 years. During that period he worked himself up at Barco Machine Vision, from System & Software Developer to R&D Manager to Managing Director of the Group.

Born in Miami, Florida and raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Martin De Moya knew at a young age that he would study science when he grew up. He took several computer-programming classes in high school and thought he would study Computer Sciences at the university but, lucky for us, he pursued his bachelor’s in industrial engineering instead.

After graduating Magna Cum Laude from the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo, he spent ten years working in technical sales before moving back to Miami in 1998, where he has always felt most at home.

Born and raised in The Netherlands, Ronald van Olmen has always been fascinated by the sciences, specifically chemistry, a subject he excelled in throughout his academic career. After receiving his Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Hogeschool Zuyd, Heerlen in The Netherlands. In his first jobs he developed the right skills to be a successful Project Leader in Multilayer Ceramic Capacitor technologies at Philips and Darphon. Ronald moved to Taiwan where he gained firsthand experience transferring LTCC lines to China.

Having grown up on a family-run dairy farm, the ins and outs of running a business run through Hendrikus Oostra’s veins. He has always enjoyed interacting with customers and helping out his family, but found himself more fascinated by the inner workings of the equipment used on the farm. His curiosity motivated him to study polymer chemistry and physics, focusing on polymer technology.

Having been fascinated by large trucks and forklifts in his father’s warehouse from his early years, Fabian pursued his bachelor’s degree in business administration, transport and logistics management in Rotterdam. During his career he has held several operational and managerial positions in the international maritime shipping industry and hinterland transportation, working in Antwerp and on the container terminals of main port Rotterdam.

Another born and raised Dutchman is our Project Innovation and Service Manager Wesley Joosten. After wrenching his way up from race-car Mechanic to Automotive teacher Wesley made a career switch to the High-tech industry working for companies like Tesla and ASML, spending lots of his time in Korea and Taiwan as Commissioning Engineer and Technical Trainer. He joined HaikuTech Europe in early 2019 and built up our Service Department and boosted our Project Innovation department for the European and Asian market.

At the age of 7 P-J taught himself how to program an 8-bit computer and dreamed that maybe one day all things would be connected. In the years that followed he studied physics and electronics and after he eventually lost his aversion to commercial themes, he even got motivated to do an MBA. Upon graduation he entered the world of semiconductors and high-tech. P-J has spent half his working life in Asia, or traveling in between, working for, or together with; ASML, Intel, TSMC, NXP and several other equipment makers, as well as establishing his own agency company and consulting practice in Taiwan.