Arjan van Rooijen

CPTO / CTO | Entrepreneur | Strategic Advisor - Energy Management Systems, EV Charging CPO / MSP, eMobility, Software development, Data management, Experience Management Software, Web Content Management

Netherlands

About

Arjan van Rooijen is an inspirational & entrepreneurial technology leader. He’s a strong technology visionary and leader with 25 years of software and product technology experience in the eMobility, Energy and Marketing platforms market. With his high analytical skills he bridges Market and Technology, and inspires product management and development teams as well as customers and partners with clear strategic product strategy and vision. At Pod Point as Chief Technology Officer responsible for Product, the CIO/CISO function and all the technology development, including hardware engineering, product design, embedded software, IoT cloud platform, mobile apps, internal systems, demand response development and compliance teams. At EVBox, Arjan van Rooijen was as CTO and SVP Product responsibility for technology vision and strategy, product management and the technology teams including cloud software platform (CPO and eMSP), embedded software charging platform, hardware design and engineering teams for charging stations, product management, user experience and product design, diagnostics, technical support teams, certification and compliance and technical documentation teams. Arjan founded Tridion in 1999. SDL Tridion is a leading provider of enterprise web content management software. During the initial years of Tridion Arjan was as a Chief Architect responsible for direction of research & development and execution of Tridion's technological vision. In his current role he focuses on Analyst relations and helps to set company and product strategy base on his market insight and vision. Arjan started his career founding the company '3wis Internet Service' (1994), 3WIS managed several high-end technical Internet project for clients such as the Dutch railways, all public Dutch broadcasting companies and publishing companies like Wolters Kluwer and Percombinatie (leading newspaper company in Holland). In 1997 3WIS merged with Topics interactive factory to form Twinspark Interactive People. As Technical Director at Twinspark, Arjan was responsible for the technical execution of projects and product development. Twinspark, in turn, was acquired in July 1999 by AGENCY.COM. Arjan holds a degree in Computer Science, has advanced expertise in the content management area and was earlier nominated to VWB Media's annual 'ICT Manager of the Year' award with six other Dutch ICT managers.

Experience

  • Chief Product Technology Officer at iwell
    Dec 2025 - Present · 8 mos

    Orchestrating energy flows for businesses We deliver energy management solutions: in-house developed EMS and modular battery storage. Whether you want to power a fleet of e-trucks, monetize your grid or become more energy independent – we take care of it. Established in the EU, we drive profit through sustainability. Making your business future-proof, and leaving you with peace of mind.

  • Strategic Technology Consultancy at Siemens eMobility
    Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 · 4 mos

    Powering the future of transportation with smart EV charging solutions Siemens eMobility (previously Heliox) offers comprehensive solutions to support the electrification of transportation in depot, en-route, and enterprise fleet applications. This includes reliable EV chargers, smart charging software for efficient energy management, and eMobility services to ensure maximum uptime of your charging infrastructure - because sustainability isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity.

  • Strategic Technology Consultancy at RNW
    Feb 2025 - Sep 2025 · 8 mos

    Joint venture of Renault and NW, the French leader in electricity storage and the first French unicorn in the energy transition, with the aim of creating innovative solutions to make the use of bidirectional electric vehicles (V2G) accessible to all. Designing and developing innovative Ai/ML solution for home battery and bidirectional electric vehicles, making them accessible to all leveraging the energy markets (e.g. FCR, aFFR, mFFR, EPEX, in-balancing).

  • Chief Product Technology Officer at Pod Point
    May 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

    Pod Point the leading providers of electric vehicle charging with over 240.000 charging stations in the UK. Pod Point provides charging solutions for homes and workplaces across the UK with unbeatable end-to-end customer experience service. Arjan van Rooijen is in his role as Chief Technology Officer responsible for Product, the CIO/CISO function and all the technology development, including hardware engineering, product design, embedded software, IoT cloud platform, mobile apps, internal systems, demand response development and compliance teams. Under Arjan’s leadership Pod Point has made a fundamental shift from closed technology to open protocols, completely redesigned and rebuild our next generation OCPP based charging platform and OCPI based interfaces for business partnerships. Under his leadership Pod Point see technology drive more customer facing products and capabilities such as the launch of a new product family with solar charging and grid flex services.

  • Chief Technology Officer & Product at EVBox
    Oct 2017 - Mar 2023 · 5 yrs 6 mos

    Arjan van Rooijen has responsibility for technology vision and strategy, product management and the technology teams including cloud software platform (CPO and eMSP), embedded software charging platform, hardware design and engineering teams for charging stations, product management, user experience and product design, diagnostics, technical support teams, certification and compliance and technical documentation teams. Additionally managing EVBox CPO and eMSP platform business, product design, user experience, certification and compliance and technical documentation teams. EVBox a high growth scale-up where teams work in scaled agile (SAFe) and have enabled highly efficient, best in class technology teams including for automotive quality grade customers. EVBox drives sustainable mobility by providing smart and scalable charging infrastructure and charging management software to electric vehicles around the world. With over 550,000 charging points across more than 70 countries.