Team & Values

PhotonFirst is building an amazing team of true professionals to support you develop, build and apply state-of-the-art integrated photonics sensing technology. Below you find their names and unique faces. Do you want to meet them in person? Let us know!

PIC Packaging Lead

Elvis Wan

Project Manager

Oscar van Schijndel

Controller

Suzanne de Vries

Application Development Lead

Michael Haverdings

ESD & Cleanroom Coordinator

Maurice van der Meer

Office Manager

Heidi Beers

Commercial Director

Jan-Jurien de Rijck

Sr. Application Solution Engineer

Ivar Koren

Logistics Support

Joeri van Hilten

Researcher

Morris Cui

Administrative Employee

Emmy Kat

Marketing Specialist

Jacco Overdulve

Jr. System Engineer

Palak Singh

Technical Sales Manager

Tarun Tampi

Supply Chain Fulfillment Lead

Michael Sieval

Software Engineer

Bas Borgignons

Application Sales Engineer

Gideon Langedijk

Technical Sales Manager

Edward de Boer

Researcher

Vincent Docter

Development Engineer

Michael Schenk

System Engineer

Peter Blom

Strategic Advisor

Rogier Vos

Photonics Engineer

Toli Zadvornyi

(Embedded) Software Engineer

Rick van der Mee

Project Manager

Haico van der Heijden

Assembly

Frenck Hendrix

Assembly

Ruben Bakkum

Application Sales Engineer

Hessel Tijseling

Application Solution Engineer

Vivek Kuttippurath

Strategic Advisor

Nick Singh

Intern

Arsen Krikorian

PIC Packaging Engineer

Christiaan Tempelaars

Senior Software Engineer

Ying Ma

Intern

Eduarda Gonçalves

Management Team

Enabling these talented team members to deliver most value for our customers and continuously develop and stay ahead of their peers in the market, PhotonFirst is lead by a Management Team of three.

Managing Director

Leendert-Jan Nijstad

Director R&D

Thijs van Leest

HR&O Manager

Sjoukje Blom

Leendert-Jan Nijstad
CEO

Thijs van Leest
Director R&D

Sjoukje Blom
HR&O Manager

Values


The best way to characterize our team is through its values. We are passionate pioneers in integrated photonics sensing collaboratively shifting the paradigm of measuring strain, shape, temperature or pressure. We are persevering and determined to help our customers win in their end-markets with an open mind and friendly attitude.

PhotonFirst team