Cees Links
Dutch entrepreneur
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Cees Links (born in 1957 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands) is a Dutch entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of GreenPeak Technologies (2004), a fabless semiconductor company for Smart Home and Internet of things (IoT) applications, in 2016 sold to Qorvo Inc., a USA-based semi-conductor/technology company.
Career
Upon graduation from the University of Twente in 1982, Links started his career at NCR Corporation. As product manager, he would have worked on the first concept development and launch of the world's first wireless LAN product in 1990, WaveLAN, a major innovation at that time.[citation needed] Throughout several acquisitions and divestitures (NCR, AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems), Links continued his work in the wireless LAN area, which he turned into a multi-hundred million dollar business for Agere Systems.[citation needed] Links became general manager in 1996 of the business unit.[citation needed] He directly closed the deal[1][unreliable source?] with Steve Jobs at Apple Computer in 1999 that ignited the growth of the wireless LAN industry.