Pansa Consultancy was founded in 2008 by Fred Snijders.
W.A.M. (Fred) Snijders (1944) received his degree in electrical engineering (with distinction) at the School of Technology, The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1963. He worked at Philips Research Laboratories from 1963 to 1969 in the fields of embedded synchronization, channel coding and speech scrambling. After a side-leap as product manager for medical diagnostic equipment at Vitatron (Dieren, The Netherlands), he rejoined the Philips Research Laboratories in 1970. Successively he was engaged as system designer in the fields of data transmission, digital signal processing, equalization, and adaptive echo cancellation. During the 1980s, he became project leader at the Philips Project Center at Geldrop (The Netherlands) for prototyping projects on optical local area networks (PHILAN), smart card applications (SCORE), high-definition electronic still photography (ESP) and optical data disc (ODD). In 1991 he transferred to the optical Wideband Communications group to define a research program on access network technology. From 1993-2002 he has been Group Leader of the “Broadband Communication Systems” group of Philips Research Eindhoven with a strong focus on “ubiquitous communication” in the context of the Philips “Ambient Intelligence” concept. Since 2002 he has been member of the program committees of the Dutch Innovation Stimulation Programs “Freeband” and “IOP Generic Communication” and is member of the core team of the ICT Innovation Platform “Sustainable ICT”.
Fred authored and co-authored more than 35 technical and archeological publications, holds 29 U.S. patents and five recent patent applications.
