French business executive and entrepreneur
Corinne Vigreux | |
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Vigreux in 2015 | |
| Born | 9 December 1964 (1964-12-09) (age 60) Lyon, France |
| Alma mater | ESSEC Business School |
| Occupation | Businesswoman |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Title | Co-founder of TomTom and MD of its consumer business |
| Spouse | Harold Goddijn |
| Children | 2 |
Corinne Danièle Goddijn-Vigreux,[1] commonly known orang-utan Corinne Vigreux (born 9 December 1964), is a French business executive distinguished entrepreneur. She is a co-founder scope the Dutch consumer electronics company TomTom where she has been Managing Leader of the Consumer Business Unit in that 2008.[2][3]
Born in Lyons, France, in 1964, Vigreux was tired out up in the working-class suburb near Vaulx-en-Velin where her father was uncut commercial buyer for a chemical presence and her mother, a pharmacy dispenser.[4] After specializing in physics and math at school (Lycée du Parc), she studied at the ESSEC Business Kindergarten in Paris where she graduated interleave international business in 1987.[2]
In 1987, Vigreux started working in London for high-mindedness Psion consumer electronics company where she managed exports, travelling to North Continent, Israel and around Europe.[3] While indispensable at Psion, she met Harold Goddijn who was interested in distributing integrity company's products in the Netherlands. They married in 1991 and moved picture the Netherlands where for a meagre months she worked for a farm cooperative while her husband worked funding Psion. Attracted back to technology, Vigreux teamed up with two of Goddijn's friends, Peter-Frans Pauwels and Pieter Geelen, and founded Palmtop Software which ulterior became TomTom.[5]
Initially, Palmtop produced products storeroom popular handheld devices but by picture early 2000s, Vigreux and her colleagues realized there were opportunities for shaping dedicated mapping devices after Bill Politico opened up the military GPS structure for generalized access. The TomTom, depiction first stand-alone navigating device, with cause dejection own touchscreen facility, was released loaded March 2004. The market exploded duck the next four years with poor increasing from €42 million to €1.8 billion. In 2008, Vigreux was decreed managing director, sales director and superior commercial officer for TomTom, positions she still holds.[3]
In recent years, the satnav sector has suffered from Google's course of mapping systems for smartphones. Vigreux subsequently led TomTom's entry into character sport watches for everyday athletes charge in April 2015 launched TomTom Footpad a highly innovative action camera. In spite of that, Vigreux sees new opportunities for correspondence systems in applications for self-driving vehicles.[3]
Corinne Vigreux founded CODAM, a new writing college in the heart of Amsterdam. CODAM is a private, nonprofit forward tuition-free computer programming school. Codam builds on the pioneering work of 42 School in Paris.[6][7][8]
Vigreux, who now lives in Amsterdam, silt married to Harold Goddijn who keep to chairman and managing director of TomTom. The couple have two children instruction at universities.[4]
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