マネックス証券株式会社
常務執行役員CTO/Senior Executive Director, CTO
ピーター・フランケン氏/Pieter Franken
Pieter Franken’s career spans over 25 years specializing in IT management and software engineering. After graduating from Delft University in Holland, he has worked as IT Head of retail bank at Citibank Japan and was responsible for the IT transformation at Shinsei Bank in Japan. Currently Pieter is spearheading technology deployment at Monex Securities as their Chief Technology Officer. Monex is one of the leading retail brokerages in Japan with focus to build a global platform to fulfill Monex Global Vision to be a global retail brokerage. Not happy with the quantity and quality of the data available shortly after the Fukushima Nuclear crisis in March 2011, Pieter founded Safecast, an independent volunteer group focused on transparent measurement of radiation levels, and open access to the results. As a Affiliate Researcher at the MIT Media Lab, Civic Media, Pieter is working on research to expand the Safecast experiences. At Keio University Pieter is a Senior Visiting Researcher undertaking scientific research on open sensor networks as a member of the WIDE project.