Pierre Kil
CEO at OpenRemote
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPierre Kil is an experienced technology and business leader with nine years in senior roles and a 20+ year track record building innovation-driven ventures inside Philips and as CEO of OpenRemote. He specializes in turning embryonic opportunities into scalable businesses, combining strategy, product incubation and global go-to-market execution across IoT, smart cities, energy and mobility. He has repeatedly built multidisciplinary teams from scratch and delivered measurable outcomes—e.g., a €16M incubator that generated €50M NPV within two years. Based in Eindhoven, he blends corporate rigor with startup speed, favoring pragmatic, front-end-configurable open-source platforms that serve OEMs, integrators and governments. Notably, his career spans deep technical roots in product and systems design through to hands-on commercial leadership, enabling him to bridge engineering, business development and services effectively.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master Business Marketing, Master Business Marketing at TIAS School for Business and SocietyMaster of Technology Design Proces & Product Design, Master of Technology Design Proces & Product Design at Eindhoven University of TechnologyPhilips van HorneBachelor Environmental Sciences, Bachelor Environmental Sciences at Erasmus University Rotterdam
German, English, Dutch
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Github Skills (40)
bluetooth-mesh10
dashboard10
integrate10
tuya10
mqtt10
energy10
websocket10
knx10
energy-monitor10
iot10
privacy10
iot-platform10
asset-management10
hosting10
iot-projects10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openremote/Documentation
Sep 2016 - Nov 2021
Contributions:110 commits, 114 pushes, 1 comment in 5 years 2 months
openremote/documentation
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
OpenRemote Documentation
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 9 months
iotiot-platformopenremote
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