Overview
Jan-Willem Rombouts is the founder and chief executive of beebop, which he started in April 2023. He is based in Belgium. Since June 2021 he has also been a co-founder and board member of Scone.
Between July 2010 and September 2018 he was co-founder and co-CEO of REstore, which was acquired by Centrica. He then served as director of product management for Centrica Business Solutions from October 2018 to April 2020.
Earlier, Rombouts spent five years at Goldman Sachs, joining in 2005 as an associate in credit trading strategy and rising to vice president, and from 2009 to 2010 was an executive director in credit strategy.
He was a graduate teaching assistant at New York University from 2002 to 2005 and a doctoral researcher at Sorbonne Université in mid-2004. He holds a B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Antwerp, an M.Sc. in mathematics from Ghent University, a Ph.D. in theoretical and mathematical physics from New York University, and a graduate certificate in data mining and applications from Stanford University.
Career history
In the news
- The most common misconception about the energy transition? That the technology isn't ready. It is. The technology is here today. What's missing is coordination: market design that reflects how flexibility actually behaves, regulation that rewards innovation, and a culture of innovation inside utilities and grid operators. Solve the technology, and you've solved one piece. The coordination around it is where the transition is won or lost. In the last of three short Grid Realities videos, we answer the question directly: what's the
- Everyone assumes the grid needs more. More solar. More batteries. More EVs. They're already here, sitting at customer premises, doing almost nothing for the wider system. What the grid actually needs is orchestration infrastructure: a layer that brings all these distributed resources into the power system reliably, so everyone from grid operators to asset owners can benefit. In the first of three short Grid Realities videos, our CEO Jan-Willem Rombouts answers the question directly: what does the grid actually need right now
- ICNC - The Technology is there - but what is missing to make Smart Charging and V2X at Scale happen? Integration and Adoption. A so event spot at the former Berlin airport with all major Charge Point Operators, MSP’s, Manufacturers etc. present. Each of them excellent in their part of the value chain. But getting more and more under pressure as the industry is maturing. To survive the increasingly high competitiveness and consolidation the combination of mobility and energy provides a pathway to sustainable profit. Still the key
- We have never had more intelligence, and never faced tighter limits on the power to run it. More than 2,000 gigawatts of generation and storage sit stuck in the US interconnection queue alone, with the same bottleneck now forming across Europe. Yet solar, storage and demand-side flexibility are all on exponential curves of their own. The question is whether we can connect them fast enough. Because every token traded rests on an electron traded first. In a new blog post, our CEO Jan-Willem Rombouts sets out the three bottlenecks:
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