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After my study physics in 1996 I joined Prime Vision and I’m heading the group since the end of 1999. During my study I was already enthousiastic about image processing and was very happy I could extend those activities at Prime Vision. Amazing to be working for a company for such a long time, and still enjoying it every moment! Especially our international expansion and the growth of our customer portfolio really gives me a thrill. I think enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. So I’m keen on keeping pleasure in my life and work; for what soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. So fun at work is important, but I also get a lot of energy of all the things I do beside work. I’m enjoying golf very much, especially when I can do a round with my wife and kid. As a contribution to society I’m also chairman at the Dutch childcare organisation Vlietkinderen (http://www.vlietkinderen.nl). And last but not least, several times per week I’ll go running. This is really a perfect way of stop thinking and just go with the flow.

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My name is Michiel de Rijcke and I lead our Research and Development department, the Prime Vision department that is producing all “reading” and “identification” techniques that form the basis for our OCR software applications. My primary focus is to keep Prime Vision OCR technologies on its excellent quality level, for now and in the future. Besides. I am Deputy Director of Prime Vision.

In my spare time I like to do sports; I am a passionate (indoor) soccer player and like to jog, squash and play tennis. Furthermore, I love to play games (boardgames, cards and computer) and to solve difficult puzzles. And last but not least, Jannet and I are very happy and much occupied with our daughter Chris.

I’m Richard Hagen and work for Prime Vision as Director of Sales and Marketing. I joined Prime Vision in early 2003 when we were on the brink of an international breakthrough. Today, some of my old dreams have become true as we are now serving satisfied customers on four continents. My role in the team is to encourage and stimulate further international growth whilst maintaining and improving our technical capabilities.  I live in a small town near Amsterdam and like sports (fitness, squash, skiing and ice-skating), international travel and cooking.  My personal goals in life are remaining happy, healthy and bring people closer together. Give each other a hand, talk: communication is everything.

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My name is Mark Andrew Ryder and I am International Sales Manager at Prime Vision, with a primary focus on our business expansion in the North American market. My role at Prime Vision involves a great deal of travel and whilst there are certainly downsides to flying, I focus on the positive benefits that travel facilitates, i.e. meeting fascinating people and visiting new locations; especially true, as I am also a fanatical photographer! When I’m not waiting in line for security at one of New York’s’ lovely airports, I also enjoy visiting with friends & family, graphic design, reading and a nice pint of Guinness….but not at the same time!

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My name is Dave Wurz and I’m a consultant for Prime Vision.  I have been with Prime Vision since February 2008; I am impressed with the technical skill, responsiveness and overall dedication of the team at Prime Vision.  I am based in the USA.  I’m a former owner of Accu-Sort Systems and have been involved in the Automatic Identification industry in a variety of roles for 20 years.  My wife Karen and I have 3 children: Kristen, Caitlin and Colton and we enjoy spending time with them.  Other interests include skiing, volleyball and travel.  I am active in my community; I coach my kids in soccer and volleyball and am a member of the Board of Trustees of a local early American history museum.

My name is Rob Pieterse and I am Senior Project Manager at Prime Vision: senior not only due to a few grey hairs!, but also over 25 years of experience in managing complex production-related projects ranging from research and development through to OCR. An important part of my role is to share the benefit of this experience with my younger colleagues at Prime Vision, I am a professional coach and over the years have coached many people. I’m married to Floor and we have two beautiful daughters Anne and Jet. I like to prepare (and eat!) good food with a nice glass of wine. Also in my spare time I enjoy cycling and spending time in the coastal area of Holland.

My name is Hans Kamperman and I am a Project Manager at Prime Vision. Besides Project Manager I am the IT manager of Prime Vision and heading the Software Engineering group. I like to make complex technical projects into commercial successes for both the customer and Prime Vision. At home I enjoy my son Thijmen and daughter Merle (of course the greatest children in the world!). I also like to ride my motorbike and play squash.

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My name is Bram Verlaan and I am a project manager at Prime Vision. In the last ten years, I have built up a wide experience in managing and developing OCR-related projects in the Netherlands as well as abroad. Besides, I use my OCR knowledge for several interesting opportunities in the pre-sales phase. In my spare time, I enjoy sports like mountain biking, soccer and swimming. Other passions are photography, nature and of course my little daughter Merel.

My name is Peggy-Ann Kosters and I am the HR and Office Manager at Prime Vision. In my spare time I like to do sports especially playing tennis. Reading a lot of books is also a hobby of mine, Dan Brown is one of my favorite writers. My biggest hobby is travelling around the world and meeting a lot of people from different cultures. Luckely we have enough free days at Prime Vision.

My name is Rutger Sluiter and I am the Finance Manager at Prime Vision. I started work here in February 2007 after having been at TNT, the majority shareholder, for 7 years as a business controller. I enjoy working here since the work atmosphere is very nice and the whole team is involved in the solutions we are providing for our customers.  My wife Judith and I have two daughters and a son. The youngest son and daughter are twins.   In my spare time I love to play golf and cook. I also like to go swimming with the kids and generally spending time with family and friends.

My name is Pim Struik. I am project manager at Prime Vision.

I have operated in many departments in Prime Vision (R & D, Software Engineering, IT and Project Management) and therefore I have wide perspective on the way Prime Vision operates it’s business. My project vary from delivering Parcel Vision and mail solutions for international parcel/mail distributors to creating critical web services.

As a senior R&D team member at Prime vision I really enjoy working in this High Tech environment. I am also very pleased that I manage to learn something new every day, even with 10+ years of experience in the Computer Vision field. Besides work, I find great joy in my family; Marjolein and our two young rascals, Marianne and Casper.

My name is Wouter Homan and I am a member of the Research and Development team. My main goal is to develop new  OCR and vision techniques and to improve the existing techniques we already have. Beside work I like photography and traveling. Both hobbies resulted in the founding of the Prime Vision Photoclub. You are invited to take a look at our pictures on the photoclub tab on this page

My name is Theo van der Donk and I am a developer at Prime Vision. Besides doing development, I’ve spent a lot of time modularizing our recognition software, so that now it can easily be reused in new customer projects. I am also co-organizer of the yearly Prime Vision Ski Event—so far we’ve been to Val Thorens, Kaltenbach and Valloire, and I wonder what next year will bring! My hobbies are (beach) volleybal, playing piano and exploiting the effects of global

After finishing the study of Artificial Intelligence at the university, I joined Prime Vision in March 2005 as a member of the research & development team. Together with a growing number of enthusiastic colleagues I am responsible for developing Prime Visions recognition software, which typically means solving brain-crunching problems on a daily basis. To clear my mind at the end of a busy day I enjoy different sports, such as volleyball, indoor cycling and running. If there is wind, chances are you’ll find me at sea or on some lake at the helm of a sailing boat!

My name is Sergey Verzakov. I have joined Prime Vision in 2007 as an R&D engineer. Working for this company gives me a lot of opportunities to apply classical data analysis techniques and to create new ones. It is really amazing to see how all this stuff works in the real world! In my free time, when I have it, I do a lot of sport, read books and listen to all kinds of music from Hip-Hop to Baroque.

My name is Jan-Willem Vesseur, I joined Prime Vision in 2008 as a Senior Software Engineer. Together with my colleagues in the Software Engineering Department our main responsibility is maintaining and improving the Parcel Vision systems.  In March 2007 I married my wife Merel. Together we spend a large part of our free time doing sports (mostly tennis) or going out with friends or family. Besides playing tennis Merel is secretary of our tennis club and I am the webmaster of the club’s website.

Hi I’m Alexander Reeves and I am the newest member of the Prime Vision Support Team. My time outside the office I fill with playing cricket and help running a sports bar in the centre of Delft.

I am Ben Schellingerhout, Support Manager at Prime Vision. My job is done when the Customer is happy. With lots of happy customers, I go out making music, reading a good book or running in the woods with my best friend.

My name is Richard Scheppink and I’m a senior software engineer at Prime Vision. I’m also the software architect for the ‘Parcel Vision’ software solutions. I like thinking about software design in order to improve our codebase, resulting in more advanced and reliable solutions for our customers. In my spare time, I like listening to music as well as playing piano and guitar. Other hobbies are photography, mountain biking and table tennis.

My name is Marina Skurichina. I joined Prime Vision in November 2006 as Researcher and Developer. I have a Ph.D. degree in Pattern Recognition received at Delft University of Technology. I like my work at Prime Vision. Especially I like to solve different problems in recognition/reading of postal addresses. In my free time I like reading a good fantasy/science fiction book, watching an intelligent romantic comedy, gardening and spending time with my family (my mom, husband and two naughty sons).

After my study Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Delft, I joined Prime Vision as a R&D engineer in 2004. I enjoy the challenge to solve recognition problems in order to work towards dependable solutions for our customers.

Outside office hours, I take care of my 3 children, Jara and twins Olaf&Yme, together with my husband Norbert. When there is any time left, I like to defeat the stress by playing (beach) volleyball and working in the garden.

My name is Elena Ranguelova and I joined the R&D team at Prime Vision in September 2008.  Having a PhD in Computer Vision/ Image processing and years of experience in the research community, I am very happy to apply my knowledge in real world problems and applications as well as learn many new things from my colleagues. In my spare time I like to read, watch a good movie or go to concert, meet my friends and very much to travel and discover new places.

“Recognition, the final frontier… This is the work I enjoy: to explore strange new fields of application, to seek out new methods and new algorithms, to boldly program what no one has programmed before.”

And, as if this is not enough, at home there is even more to enjoy! Raising four beautiful kids, playing piano, singing and arranging vocal pop and jazz songs for www.9-am.nl my vocal group.

By the way, don’t get fooled by the cartoon: my hair is half gray. Guess that’s why they call me senior…

I am Ellen Brender à Brandis and I work in the marketing department. Mainly I take care of the communication inside and outside the company.

I am happy that I can share our successes with our existing and potential customers and make them aware of our solutions and expertise.

Just like most of my colleagues I like to read a book but most of the time there is no time for it as I am also a fanatic aerobic teacher and have two sons and a husband who also need a lot of attention. If there is some time left I love shopping, playing tennis, cooking, skiing and making nice pictures of my kids who gradually seem to be professional models.

After studying Electrical Engineering and Computational Intelligence and Robotics I decided that it was time to put it into practice. I joined Prime Vision as a Software Engineer in 2009. My interests lie in smart software and web development. In my spare time I like to play board games, go for a walk in the nature or experiment on the web.

I have studied Physics at the University of Bucharest (1998) and obtained a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Groningen (2007). My research work focuses on image analysis and pattern recognition (document processing and retrieval, handwriting recognition, writer identification, camera-based OCR). After following a course on neural networks during my university studies, I have become passionate about pattern recognition: the fascinating process by which continuous and variable shapes are assigned to a set of discrete classes using statistical methods (learning from examples). Postal automation is the ideal application area to see how advanced pattern recognition methods yield concrete results in practice. I have joined Prime Vision in 2009 and my role is to develop technological extensions and improvement to our software library. I am married to Monica and we have great kids, Ioana and Stefan. I enjoy spending time with my family, jogging, photography and cooking.