Michiel van Genuchten has combined work in industry with academic activities. The roles in the industry always centered around software and IT; either in engineering, in the go-to-market or as general manager. Experience includes many years as an executive in software start-ups as well as large multinational companies in multiple countries. The last four years he was a VP at Straumann, a medtech company in Switzerland. From 2013 until 2021 he was a member of the management team of a software start-up founded by Mayo Clinic and acquired by Philips in 2017.
Michiel's academic activities include a PhD project, teaching in postgraduate courses (since 1990), a one day a week professorship at Eindhoven University of Technology (from 2002 to 2011) and membership of the editorial board of IEEE Software (since 2009).