Alex Terpstra
Chief Executive Officer
Alex Terpstra led the creation of Civolution as a spin out from Philips in 2008 and subsequently executed  two acquisitions for Civolution - Teletrax in 2008 and Thomson STS in 2009.
After initially working in the television content production industry, Alex built his professional career further at Philips. From the early 1990s Alex was involved in the digitalization of television broadcasting and held various managerial positions in project and product management, sales, marketing and business development. In 2003 Alex was appointed General Manager of Philips’ conditional access business CryptoWorks. In January 2007 Alex was appointed CEO of the Philips Content Identification with the assignment to accelerate its growth, which led to the spin-out as a standalone company Civolution 2008. He is a frequent speaker in his role as an industry thought-leader at key global events.

Andy Nobbs
Chief Commercial Officer
Andy Nobbs is Civolution’s Chief Commercial Officer, managing all commercial, client services, sales and marketing activities. Prior to Civolution, Andy was President at Teletrax, the only global broadcast intelligence service, where he oversaw all aspects of Teletrax's worldwide activities including strategy management, business development, operations, and sales and marketing. Andy was formerly Content Director at IPC Media where he successfully accelerated and leveraged the exploitation and the revenue growth of IPC's intellectual properties, ranging from television, the internet and printed media. He has previously worked in executive positions for ITV and EMAP.

Stefan Wiezer
Chief Financial Officer
Stefan Wiezer joined civoluion as CFO in March 2010. Stefan, a certified accountant (RA) started his professional career at KPMG's international audit practice. In 2000 he joined Tele Atlas where Stefan built his experience in high growth technology companies. Tele Atlas went through an IPO early in 2000. After various acquisitions and a second public offering in 2005, Tele Atlas was again sold to Tom Tom in 2008.

Hans van de Ven
Senior Vice President Business Development
Hans joined Philips Content Identification in April 2007 as business development manager MediaHedge. He has a background in engineering augmented with an MBA. Hans has a strong track record in developing successful new businesses and partnerships. Philips Content Identification became Civolution in October 2008.

Wim Bus
Senior Vice President Product Management
Wim has a background in engineering and has an extensive experience in Product Management and Business Development in the security and digital TV domain. In his latest positions he worked as a Business consultant for LogicaCMG and as Director Digital TV products for Philips and Irdeto. In February 2007, Wim was appointed as Director of Business Development PayTV within Philips Content Identification. Philips Content Identification became Civolution in October 2008.

Jaap Haitsma
Chief Technology Officer
Jaap was appointed Chief Technology Officer within Philips Content Identification in July 2004. Before joining Philips Content Identification, Jaap worked in Philips Research in 1997 as a research scientist in the area of video watermarking. Subsequently, he moved on to audio watermarking, audio fingerprinting and video fingerprinting. This research led to mature technologies that are currently commercialized by the Content Identification business unit. Philips Content Identification became Civolution in October 2008.

Jean-Michel Masson
Senior Vice President Watermarking Solutions
Jean-Michel is managing R&D and Operations for Civolution watermarking products. Prior to that he was general manager of Thomson STS business unit, which was acquired by Civolution in July 2009. Jean-Michel has been in the broadcast industry since the beginning of his career, with a focus since the late 90’s on watermarking technologies and associated markets. He founded Nextamp in 2002, a company funded by VCs to develop and commercialize watermarking solutions. He joined Thomson in 2005, as Nextamp was acquired and consolidated in the Thomson STS business unit.

Sjeng van der Weerden
Vice President Global Operations
Sjeng built most of his professional career at Philips in the area of video broadcasting. He held various roles in research, engineering, project management and operations management. Prior to Civolution spin out from Philips, Sjeng served as Director of Operations at Philips Content Identification business unit.
Early in 2010 Sjeng started as Program Director Key Accounts at the Dutch Video on Demand specialist Eventis, which was recently acquired by SeaChange. Sjeng joined Civolution in January 2011 as VP Global Operations taking responsibility for Network Operations, Business Operations and Client Services.

Wil Ramakers
Vice President Human Resources
Wil joined Civolution in January 2011. After several years in the area of vocational choice consultancy he started working in the HR domain in a training and development function. He extended his expertise in a wide variety of HRM responsibilities mainly within Philips and NXP Semiconductors. Wil worked for start-ups as well as established businesses;  manufacturing; functional areas and business entities, both local and international.