Summary
Chris Strijbosch is a seasoned international business leader with over 40 years of hands-on entrepreneurial and management experience building IT organizations from the ground up, including scaling a public company to 10+ offices and €50M annual revenue. As Vice President of Business Development at nanocosmos and Entrepreneur in Residence at HighTechXL, he blends deep commercial acumen in ultra-low-latency streaming, IoT and e-commerce with practical start-up acceleration and go-to-market execution. He excels at diagnosing problems, defining strategic targets, and driving hands-on implementation across sales, marketing and product positioning. Chris regularly partners with CEOs and leadership teams to translate technical capabilities into scalable international sales and export strategies. His background spans B2B and B2C retail, software-as-a-service, distribution, production and niche industries (smart materials, wearables, telematics), giving him a rare cross-sector perspective. Not obvious from titles: he couples investor-level strategic thinking with repeated on-the-ground operational buildouts and market entries across Europe and Asia.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
HTS Bedrijfskader
MBA, MBA at Business School Nederland
German, French, English, Italian