With effect from 1 November 2016, Guido van Tartwijk has become the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tridonic, a company belonging to the Zumtobel Group. He succeeds Alfred Felder, who has been appointed to the Group’s Management Board back in April this year.
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Tridonic CEO Guido van Tartwijk. (Tridonic/LEDinside) |
Born in the Netherlands in 1967, Guido van Tartwijk holds a doctorate in physics and has amassed extensive experience in the lighting and semiconductors industries. In the first six years of his career, he worked for major telecommunications as well as start-up companies in the Netherlands and the USA. During the subsequent twelve years, he held a variety of top management positions at Philips Lighting, where he was also responsible for establishing the global Philips LED Lighting Hub in Shanghai. Most recently, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Philips LED Electronics.