Former Supervisory Board members

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mr. H. Koopmans

As Director of Sensor Universe, Mr. Koopmans initiated in June 2008 the first contact between the future founders and managing directors of INCAS³: Heinrich Wörtche and John van Pol. As a Supervisory Board member, he played an important role in the development of INCAS³ from an idea into the institute it has become. In November 2011 Mr. Koopmans announced his departure as Director of Sensor Universe and as a consequence of that also his position in the INCAS³ Supervisory Board.

Henk A. Koopmans (Culemborg, 1944) started his career as a sales manager for Nixdorf Computers at Veenman Kantoormachines N.V. In 1976 he became Executive Board member Vedior Holding N.V. with responsibility for the financials of Vedior and as member of the Board of ABU (employers asociation) responsable for the the contacts with Ministries of Social and Economic Affairs. Between 1984 and 1998 Henk was CEO and one of the share holders in Reiss & Co N.V. a Venture capital fund that executed 3 I(nitial) PO’s and 5 P(ublic) O(fferings) at the AEX. In 1998 he started his own company, Inventures Management B.V., a holding company with various activities in corporate finance, holdings and active involvement with management of such holdings.Henk is currently Director of Sensor Universe. The aim of Sensor Universe is to connect all interested parties, including those interested in the technological benefits (academia) as well as entrepreneurs and investors, to put The (Northern) Netherlands at the leading edge of Sensor Technology development.

Henk is educated as a Chartered Accountant.

prof. dr. K. Duppen

Professor Duppen was a member of the INCAS³ Supervisory Board from 2008 until 2011. He passed away on 27 May 2011 in his home town of Kropswolde at the age of 58. Koos Duppen played an important role in the development of INCAS³. Since the founding of INCAS³ he has been a member of the supervisory board as which he represented our interests in an excellent manner and we thank him for this. We will remember him with great respect.

Koos Duppen (Winterswijk, 1953) worked two years at Shell Amsterdam. In 1987 he returned to Groningen as lecturer in the Department of Physical Chemistry. In 2001 he was appointed professor of Initial Education at the Faculty of Science. This chair was established in 1999 as a response to the increasing need within society for broadly trained and communicative scientists. Duppen was, first as project manager and later as a professor, a pioneer in the modernization of the educational program.In 2002 he became Director of the Computing Centre in which capacity he was involved in the arrival of the Blue Gene supercomputer to Groningen. In Spring 2006 he became a Member of the Executive Board of the University of Groningen.

Koos Duppen studied chemistry (1980 graduate, cum laude) at the University of Groningen. At the same university he obtained his doctorate (1985, cum laude) with a thesis Nonlinear Optical Investigation of vibrational dynamics in solids.