Author Profile

Albert Rooyakkers is founder, CEO, and CTO of Bedrock Automation. He has 35 years of process control and semiconductor industry experience. Before founding Bedrock Automation in 2013, he directed semiconductor sales and application development teams for Maxim Integrated, including residing in Japan as Maxim Japan Country Manager. Prior to that, he served in various senior capacities for Invensys (now Schneider Electric) in the U.S. and Canada, including directing product development for distributed control systems and sensors and developing the Saudi Aramco account while residing in Saudi Arabia. Rooyakkers’ accomplishments include developing a parallel computing architecture from whiteboard to silicon, designing and testing advanced hybrid propulsion systems, and currently, as CEO and CTO, from Silicon Valley, designing and commercializing the Bedrock cyber secure industrial control system. Bedrock is the world’s first advanced OSA Open Secure Automation platform, built on a vision of flat, open, and secure technologies to meet the severe demands of the digital age. Rooyakkers holds more than 100 patents and pending patents in electronics, human interface, mechanical design, system design, and cybersecurity.