Koen Ameel

EMEA Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager

Hasselt, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

Sales & business development leader with significant multinational experience in the semiconductor industry; working with startup’s up to large scale multi-billion $ companies • Track record of building and growing successful businesses • Strong relationship builder, on all levels. • Self motivated, creative and analytical thinking • Open mind, eager to learn • Excellent judgment and decision-making skills • Effective communicator

Experience

  • EMEA Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager at imec
    Mar 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Many societal and macro economic developments of the future will increasingly depend on deep tech innovation, nanotechnology and new digital capabilities driven by new, core hardware developments. @ imec, I'm responsible for building and growing relationships with imec's world class partners, providing them deep insights in the imec's innovative technologies that shape the future, with the goal of making positive societal impact.

  • Sales & Business Development Manager at onsemi
    Sep 2015 - Mar 2023 · 7 yrs 7 mos

    Sales & Business development for the Central European region. Focus on image sensor sales to regional automotive and industrial markets.

  • Managing Director at Amko International bvba
    Sep 2011 - Aug 2015 · 4 yrs

    Created a successful semiconductor representative company, covering the Benelux and French markets. Major semiconductor lines represented: Programmable Logic (Altera, Intel), Image Sensing (Aptina Imaging, ON Semiconductor), Flash Memory (Sandisk, Western Digital), Analog & Mixed Signal (Semtech). After ON Semiconductor acquired Aptina imaging in 2015, I took the opportunity to join this industry leader in sensing, power and connectivity solutions

  • Sales Manager Europe at Icera Semiconductor Inc (acquired by NVIDIA)
    Jan 2008 - Aug 2011 · 3 yrs 8 mos

    Development of Icera's cellular modem chipset and software business within the European market. Sales to hardware companies integrating the chip set, as well as to all major European telco's planning to use Icera's unique modem technology on their cellular networks. As a start-up in a very challenging environment, facing Qualcomm and HiSilicon (Huawei) as major competitors, we successfully created a footprint in the market, attractive enough for NVIDIA to buy the company. After the acquisition of Icera by NVIDIA, I decided to return to Belgium to start a new adventure by creating a semiconductor representative company .

  • Sales Manager Nordic & Benelux at Cypress Semiconductor
    Jun 1999 - Dec 2007 · 8 yrs 7 mos

    Different sales management roles at a local, European and global level - Regional Channel Manager - Philips Global Account Manager - Nokia Mobile Phone Global Account Manager - Regional Sales Manager Benelux and Nordic regions