Jeroen Tas | |
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Citizenship | The Netherlands |
Occupation | Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer at Royal Philips |
Employer | Philips |
Website | http://www.philips.com/a-w/innovationmatters/blog.html |
Jeroen Tas (born May 6, 1959)[1] is a Dutch entrepreneur and senior executive in the healthcare, information technology and financial services industries with over 30 years of experience.[2] In February 2017, he assumed the role as Chief Innovation & Strategy Officer at Philips.[3]. He is responsible for the company’s strategy, research & development, design, medical affairs, sustainability, platforms and emerging businesses. Jeroen Tas is also a member of the Executive Committee at Royal Philips.
Prior to his current role, he was named CEO of Connected Care and Health Informatics in February 2016, a cluster of five Philips business groups focusing on patient monitoring and therapeutic care, population health, healthcare IT, healthcare transformation services and the development and deployment of the Philips HealthSuite cloud platform. In this role he supported governments and health systems’ and hospitals’ with the implementation of new models of networked care through connected and customized personal health and clinical programs. Philips is using digital technologies to change the way healthcare is delivered through its interoperable, cloud-based data analytics solutions called HealthSuite digital platform. Before taking upon him the role of CEO of Connected Care and Health Informatics Jeroen Tas led the Philips Healthcare Informatics Solutions and Services Business Group.
Jeroen is a native of the Netherlands. He earned a master's degree in computer science and business administration from the Free University of Amsterdam.[5]
In 1998, Jeroen Tas and Jerry Rao co- founded BFL Software, an IT company, that later merged with Indian IT services company MphasiS in 2000. MphasiS rapidly rose to be one of the top 10 IT/BPO companies in India.[6] Jeroen also served as President, COO and vice-chairman of the Board for MphasiS, a company with revenues of $1+ billion.[7] In 2006, Electronic Data Systems (EDS) acquired MphasiS, and it is now majority-owned by Hewlett-Packard.[8] At EDS, Jeroen served as Vice President and General Manager, responsible for the global competency centers.1,[9]
Prior to his time at MphasiS and EDS, Jeroen was head of Transaction Technology, Inc., Citigroup's tech lab, responsible for the advancement of the bank’s customer-facing systems.5 Under his leadership, he oversaw the deployment of the company’s Internet banking platform. While he was at Citigroup, Jeroen was a member of the Global Marketing Council and the Global Consumer Technology Group.[10]
Since taking the Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer role at Philips, Jeroen initiated pivotal partnerships with Qualcomm Life, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce and Pegasystems to support the building of a global Philips HealthSuite ecosystem for connected personal health and clinical care solutions. In 2015, Jeroen helped launch a new mobile diabetes monitoring system in conjunction with Radboud University Medical Center to offer patients an integrated health management system that is connected, efficient and patient-centric.[12]