Inspired by the ever increasing need for Internet speed and the efforts by the fiber optic companies to provide true global broadband connectivity at the beginning of this decade, Ivo set out to solve the "last mile" problem by means of wireless technology.

In his role as chief technology officer of the company, Ivo is the champion for innovation across Hopling Networks and responsible for setting the global development course for Hopling Networks. Ivo leads the research, engineering, support and operations departments and is the inventor of the company's innovative multi-hop mesh routing concept.

Ivo has overall responsibility for all product architecture and new feature introductions. Prior to Hopling Networks Ivo was responsible as business development director at Spatial Wireless to create an European market by building customers relations and closing business contracts.

July 2000, he took on an assignment at Global Crossing as city network director for the metro network build in the Benelux. In that role, Ivo was responsible for the metro network strategy in Amsterdam and the subsequent deployment of this metro network. The strategy was quickly adapted to other cities in the Benelux, such as Almere, Antwerp, Brussels, Eindhoven and Rotterdam. When the metro networks neared completion the scope of the role as city director was changed from implementation oriented to business oriented.

He previously served as Exi’s European operations manager for the implementation, commissioning and engineering for telecom systems, providing telecom solutions to major telecommunications equipment providers and operators, including BT, Ericsson, Lucent, Alcatel and Esprit. He initially managed about 80 engineers, but this was set to grow to about 140 people during the first half of 2000.

Before joining Exi, Ivo was a project manager for both the "Personal Number" and the "Unified Messaging" project for Dutchtone (Orange), one of the mobile operators in the Netherlands. Both projects enhanced the existing Orange service offerings to Orange customers. Ivo also implemented and rolled-out a voicemail project, in which a Unisys voicemail platform was put into service. As senior project manager, Ivo was actively participating in building Orange's technical department and succeeding to set standards in the field of project management, operational procedures and workflow processes.

Since October 1995 Ivo has worked for the research and development department of Ericsson as a designer. From August 1997 Ivo was the project manager of a project called ‘Generic Network Solutions’. In this project, 20 products of Ericsson (AXE, IN-services and management software) were integrated and tested to form one package.