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Pieter Geelen - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Pieter Geelen
- Pieter Geelen (born 1964) is a Dutch entrepreneur. Geelen was born in January 1964 in Hilversum as the oldest child of the illustrator Harrie Geelen and the children's author Imme Dros.
- In 1991, he dropped off his Ph.D.
- research in Computer Science at the Universiteit van Amsterdam to found a company called Palmtop Software with his former university mate Peter-Frans Pauwels.
- This company was later renamed TomTom.With the €100,000,000 he acquired from TomTom’s IPO in 2005, he established the Turing Foundation, a charitable organization.In 2013 he founded the Mapcode Foundation, another charitable organization which offers the Mapcode system he invented in 2001 with Harold Goddijn.
