PIXELTEQ Strengthens European Marketing Team

Marco Snikkers has joined the PIXELTEQ team as its Director of Sales & Marketing in Europe. With more than 15 years of experience in the photonics sector and having held the position as commercial director for Ocean Optics, Snikkers will direct all sales and marketing activity for the European markets from his base in the Netherlands.

“Snikkers’ knowledge of the spectroscopy and semiconductor market will help us to increase the support towards our customers for our new line of spectral sensing products,” said Randel Mercer, VP business development at PIXELTEQ.

During his time with Ocean Optics, Snikkers successfully led the sales team in expanding to Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East and growing the OEM customer portfolio. He previously worked as sales manager for Europe and Asia in the semiconductor laser field and as product applications manager for a Dutch photonics startup company. He started his career as a research engineer of high-speed lasers for Philips Research and has a Bachelor of Science degree in applied physics.

PIXELTEQ applies micro-patterned dichroic filters on glass or semiconductor wafers, helping OEMs shrink multi-wavelength sensors into one package or enable new optical features in today’s semiconductor sensors.