Summary
Pim Van Gennip is a founder and product-focused engineering leader with 11+ years building IoT products, connected apps, and energy-aware hardware/software systems. As Managing Director of Healthy Climate Solutions and founder of Iconize, he blends hands-on development (Raspberry Pi, Arduino, NodeJS, Socket.io, Angular) with UX, hardware design and sustainability advice to turn concepts into deployable products. He has steered product and software teams across startups and NGOs, including roles at Plugwise, Symbid and the BEEP Foundation, pairing commercial delivery with climate-conscious innovation. Pim’s background in energy management and research informs a pragmatic emphasis on energy efficiency and long-term sustainability in product design. He’s known for connecting software to the physical world—rapidly prototyping proofs of concept while keeping user experience and real-world constraints front and center. Based in the Netherlands, he combines entrepreneurial grit with multidisciplinary engineering to bring complex IoT ideas into practice.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, English, German, French