Pieter is the CEO and co-founder of SkyGeo. He leads the overall company strategy and direction, with the goal to scale the use of InSAR as a 4D diagnostic tool.

Pieter is an entrepreneur who has held executive roles in early stage technology companies, developing new products for enterprise customers in the last 2 decades.

He started his career as a geologist at Shell, worked in the Research division of IBM and subsequently as an engineer in the advanced technology group at Maxtor Corp, where he participated in the IPO.

Pieter holds a B.Sc. in Geology from the Free University in Amsterdam and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Today he spends several hours every day working with clients’ engineers, looking at InSAR data and diagnosing geotechnical engineering risk.