Rob Koenen is a Co-Founder of Tiledmedia, the leading VR streaming company, where he is responsible for business development as Tiledmedia’s Chief Business Officer.

Mr. Koenen has held many leading roles in media standards and initiatives. He was co-founder and the first President of the VR Industry Forum, VRIF. Rob chaired MPEG’s Requirements Group for 10 years, playing a key roles in the development of MPEG-4 and in initiating MPEG-I. He is co-editor of the MPEG-4 Systems Standard. Rob founded the MPEG Industry Forum in 1999, and served as its President for the first five years, successfully bringing MPEG-4 technology from a paper specification to a dominant market force.

Mr. Koenen received his MSEE (‘ingenieur’) degree in 1989 from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands where he studied electrical engineering, specializing in information theory. Rob is a Senior Member of IEEE and holds a number of patents in media processing, visual quality metrics and VR streaming.