Johan Feenstra
07 - 08 October 2025
Málaga, SPAIN
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Johan Feenstra
SMART Photonics, CEO
About the Speaker
Johan joined SMART Photonics as CEO in 2019, after having served on their Advisory Board for about 3 years. At SMART, he has raised € 150M with his team to grow SMART Photonics to become a globally leading foundry in the integrated photonics industry.
Johan is currently part of the Semicon Board NL, chairing a European focus group of 8 CEO’s and part the 10 Tech Champions, representing the Dutch National Technology Strategy.
Before SMART, Johan co-founded Liquavista in 2006 and is co-inventor of electrowetting displays. At Liquavista, he had a broad set of roles, ranging from CEO, to CTO and Director Program Management. Together with his team, he raised four rounds of venture capital for Liquavista and sold the company twice, in both cases to Fortune 500 companies (Samsung Electronics and Amazon.com).
Johan is also serving as an advisor and/or supervisory board member for a number of start-ups and scale-ups.
Johan received his PhD in Solid State Physics from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands in 1997.
