Nicky Hekster
Industry Technical Leader Healthcare & Life Sciences BeNeLux, IBM

Since the beginning of 2006 Nicky Hekster is Healthcare & Life Sciences Industry Technical Leader for IBM Benelux. As such he focuses on architecture and infrastructure underpinning IBM’s solutions for Healthcare and Life Sciences. In particular he is engaged in how to map aspects of IBM’s on demand business paradigm, like integration and interoperability through services oriented architectures, to the world of Healthcare & Life Sciences.

His 21 years of experience include strategic technical consulting, tactical assessment, design, development, and implementation of architecture, systems, and applications. As a consulting IT specialist, he has worked with clients for the last decade on system design using IBM server and storage technology to deploy new and existing business applications and creating new value from innovation. From 2003 to 2006 he worked as an assignee at the Products and Solutions Support Center, IBM Montpellier, France.

He is a member of the Technical Council of IBM BeNeLux. Mr. Hekster is also steering committee member of the Dutch branch of IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise), which promotes the coordinated use of established standards such as DICOM and HL7 to address specific clinical needs in support of optimal patient care.

He holds a Ph.D. in pure mathematics. In his spare time he enjoys smoking good cigars and playing soccer, though not both at the same time.