Eric Thelen
CTO Philips Home Healthcare Solutions, Vice President
Philips
As CTO of Philips Home Healthcare Solutions, Eric Thelen is responsible for technology strategy as well as for product and service development. Philips Home Healthcare Solutions is part of the Healthcare Sector of Philips and focuses on supporting independent living for seniors and the chronically ill by providing telehealth solutions, remote patient monitoring services, personal emergency response services and cardiac monitoring services.

Eric Thelen joined Philips in 1994 as a scientist within the Man-Machine Interfaces research department at the research laboratories in Aachen, Germany, after earning an electrical engineering degree from the Technical University of Aachen. Eric held a number of leadership roles within Philips Research in both the U.S. and the Netherlands, participating in the development of speech-enabled mobile phone services and heading a medical signal processing team.

In October 2005, Eric became Sector Head of Philips Research for Digital Care Solutions, with departments in Eindhoven (The Netherlands), Aachen (Germany) and Bangalore (India). Eric also managed the research focal area e-Health with the research domains Healthcare IT and Interactive Healthcare. Eric moved into his current role at Philips Home Healthcare Solutions in September 2007. He is currently based in Framingham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Royal Philips Electronics is a global leader in healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle, delivering people-centric, innovative products, services and solutions through the brand promise of "sense and simplicity". Headquartered in the Netherlands, Philips employs approximately 123,800 employees in more than 60 countries worldwide. With sales of EUR 27 billion in 2007, the company is a market leader in medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring systems, energy efficient lighting solutions, as well as lifestyle solutions for personal wellbeing.