Meet the team
Powertrim Technologies is built by uniting the best of both worlds. TFA Europe, founded in 2020 by 4 semiconductor tooling veterans in the heartland of the Dutch semiconductor back-end technology, the eastern part of the Netherlands joined forces with Brainport Eindhoven based Include Industries, created by high-tech scale-up series-entrepreneurs. Together, the six founders of Powertrim Technologies have a bold ambition to win this fast-growing market of power module packaging. The Executive Board of Powertrim Technologies exists of Huub Claassen (Chief Commercial Officer), Ilko Bosman (CFO) and Daan Kersten (CEO).
To fuel our growth, we are hiring the most talented dream-team. Job profiles will be available soon but do not hesitate to reach out now if you are a team-playing industrial professional with ambition to build the #1 power module packaging company as:
- Chief Technology and Operations Officer (CTO/COO)
- System development & application engineer
- Controls, software and data engineer
- Technical sales & account manager
- Sales engineer
- Procurement & supply chain engineer
Coming from an industrialist family, once leaders in cigar manufacturing, industrial entrepreneurship has stolen the heart of Daan Kersten at young age. After a mechanical and industrial engineering master at Delft University of Technology, he has been working continuously in the manufacturing industry in various roles. As a project manager and strategy consultant, executive and supervisory board member, but mainly as serial entrepreneur. During the start of his first company, Daan brushed up his business insights with an MBA from Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management and he also followed a course on fast growing companies at Stanford University in Silicon Valley where scaling companies rapidly seems to be invented. Before he founded Include Industries with Ilko Bosman, he was CEO of PhotonFirst, a global pioneer in measuring changes in temperature, strain or shape with light using integrated photonics. Before that, he was co-founder and CEO of the world’s first manufacturer of industrial 3D metalprinting systems, Additive Industries.
Already during is time studying Information Management at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Ilko Bosman started his first company, an IT service provider for SMEs. He started his career at ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam, where he has worked in different roles combining business and IT for 8 years. After ABN AMRO was split up in 2008, his entrepreneurial preference lead him to enter the world of 3D printing with Freedom Of Creation, a design agency specialized in 3D printing, which was started by Finnish designer Janne Kyttanen a few years earlier. After Freedom Of Creation was acquired by 3D Systems, Ilko co-founded MakerPoint, currently the largest value-added reseller in 3D printing and scanning in the Benelux. Around that time, he also met Daan Kersten en joined him in Additive Industries, where he later on took the role of CFO. Daan and Ilko continued to team up after their time at Additive Industries in building PhotonFirst and now Include Industries. Ilko has a passion for technology, IT and finance and prefers to apply this there where technology and business meet.
Graduate engineer in Mechanical Engineering and Electronics, 1986
Back-end assembly Process Engineering NXP, LSI Logic Freemont/Braunschweig
Co-founder of PS Systems (Trim & Form Equipment), sold to Multitest (D)
Sales Director Besi Group, MD TOWA Europe
Currently Business Development Manager for Boschman Advanced Packaging Technology
Co-founder of TFA Europe
Various patents in Back-end assembly processes for EV drive train electronics and e-motors
Back-end assembly Process Engineering NXP, LSI Logic Freemont/Braunschweig
Co-founder of PS Systems (Trim & Form Equipment), sold to Multitest (D)
Sales Director Besi Group, MD TOWA Europe
Currently Business Development Manager for Boschman Advanced Packaging Technology
Co-founder of TFA Europe
Various patents in Back-end assembly processes for EV drive train electronics and e-motors