Philippe Vercruyssen is joining Ovizio Imaging Systems as executive chairman and managing director. He was previously a managing partner at Ocas Ventures.
Ovizio Imaging Systems is a Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) spin-out, focused on commercialising digital holographic microscopy products and services. The technology records an object as a digital hologram, which a reconstruction algorithm than rebuilds on a computer. Ovizio’s technology, which can create up to 1,000 such holograms per second, is based on a licensed patent portfolio of the Microgravity Research Centre.
Vercruyssen brings with him over 25 years’ worth of experience in consulting and private equity. He founded the capital venture fund Ocas Ventures, during which time he was appointed to the board of five portfolio companies in the UK, Sweden and Belgium. The fund is a joint venture between the Flemish region in Belgium and ArcelorMittal, and is fully invested.
During his time at Ocas, he built a large network of investors and advisors in the Europoean venture capital industry. The network’s focus lies on technology sectors, materials innovations, and industrial ventures and spin-outs.
ULB is the French-speaking university that came out of the 1969 split of the Free University of Brussels, with the Flemish-speaking university dubbed Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Ovizio spun out of ULB in 2009.
