pvanhoof@mit.edu
www.parUchute.com
MIT Sloan, MBA 2014 / Entrepreneurship & Innovation – focus on media entertainment, technology and venture capital

Expertise

★★★☆ Art
★☆☆☆ Architecture
★★☆☆ Craft/Fabrication
★★★★ Design
☆☆☆☆ DIY Electronics
☆☆☆☆ Electrical Eng.
☆☆☆☆ Mech. Eng.
★☆☆☆ Programming/CS

★★★★ Innovation Management/Product Development

Experience
I’m a second-year MBA student who spent the (2013) summer doing an internship in Strategic Planning & Analytics for the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Before coming to MIT I was an entrepreneur in Product Design and Innovation Consulting, leading teams of designers and engineers to develop physical and digital consumer products. From 2007 to 2011 I worked for the Treasury Department in the Netherlands, where I was responsible for various public-private investments, government shareholdings and privatizations. I completed the diplomat training program at the Dutch Foreign Service (2009) and spent a summer (2010) seconded to the Dutch embassy in Beijing where I researched the innovation / R&D ecosystem in China. In 2005/2006 I ran the first Dutch start-up accelerator program. I graduated from the VU University in Amsterdam with an MS in Business Science, with electives focusing on Industrial Design taken at the Eindhoven University of Technology. I completed several part-time courses in Fine Arts, 3D animation production and filmmaking.

Why
I am very interested in the area in which physical products, media and technology intersect. Tangible Interfaces is one of those very promising big ideas, that I can only get exposure to here at MIT / Media Lab. I hope to learn about – and contribute to – concept development, application design and user experience.