Walter De Brouwer (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈʋɑltərdəˈbrʌuər]; born May 9, 1957) is a Belgian-born businessman and semiotician.[1] He is the former CEO of doc.ai[2] and of Scanadu.[3] As a businessman, as of 2013, he took part in the creation of over 35 companies, including two that became publicly traded through Initial Public Offering.[4]
He was a lecturer at the University of Antwerp (UFSIA) and faculty professor at the University of Monaco. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University Medical school (the Clinical Excellence Research Center).[7]
He was on the editorial advisory board of the Journal for Chinese Entrepreneurship.[8] De Brouwer is a member of the American Mathematical Society.
Former member of the Tau Zero Foundation (until 2013).
He is now co-chairing the IEEE committee on Decentralized Clinical Trials.[9] and a member of the board of Linux Foundation Public Health together with IBM, CISCO, Tencent, VMWare[10]
Career
Publisher
De Brouwer set up Riverland Publications in 1990 to publish personal computer magazines.[11] In 1994, he sold his titles to VNU. He then published the cyberpunk magazine Wave, edited by Michel Bauwens and designed by Niels Shoe Meulman. Wave was a cult Belgian avant garde magazine.[12]
Internet
In 1996, De Brouwer was one of the founders of EUnet.[13] Eunet was sold to Qwest Communications in 1999.[14][15] He founded the employment website Jobscape.[16][17] In 2008, De Brouwer set up OLPC Europe, the European branch of One Laptop per Child.[18][19]
Starlab
In 1996, De Brouwer founded Starlab together with MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte.[20][21][22] Under De Brouwer’s direction, by April 2001 it had hired 70 scientists from 33 different countries.[22] Starlab went bankrupt in June 2001.[23]
Scanadu
De Brouwer is co-founder and former CEO of Scanadu, a company located at the NASA Ames Research Park in California.[3] and Scanaflo, an at-home, full-panel urinalysis testing device designed to give consumers immediate information about their liver health, urinary tract infections, and other vitals.[24] Scanadu was taken over by healthy.io (in 2020)[25]
Doc.ai
De Brouwer stepped down from CEO of Scanadu in April 2016 and became a co-founder (along with his wife, Sam de Brouwer) and the original CEO of doc.ai., a Palo Alto, CA-based artificial intelligence company with a focus on digital healthcare,[26] including an app to help patients manage and analyze health data.[27] In 2020, he stepped down as CEO and was replaced by Sam De Brouwer (née Lounis); he stayed on with the company as chief scientific officer.[28] Doc.ai was acquired in January 2021 by the Atlanta-based digital health company Sharecare, who brought Walter De Brouwer onto their board as chief science officer as part of the merger.[29] Doc.ai was featured in Forbes when the company received a $100m contract from Anthem, the second-largest insurer in USA.[30]
De Brouwer, Walter; Ayris, Stephen (1985). Computer Buzz words : Teacher's guide. Wolters Leuven, ISBN90-309-0815-7
De Brouwer, Walter (1985). Cybercrud : computer terminology for advanced students of informatics and industrial engineering. Wolters Leuven, ISBN90-309-0819-X
Vanneste, Alex; Geens D, De Brouwer, Walter (1987). Het Nieuwe Landschap, Wolters Leuven, ISBN90-309-0825-4
De Brouwer, Walter (2004). Echelon: Three can keep a Secret, if Two of them are Dead. Delaware, ASIN B004J3UHGG
De Brouwer, Walter (2004). The biology of language: the post-modern deconstruction and denarration of modern and pre-modern grand narratives. Universiteit van Tilburg, ISBN978-90-810022-1-9
De Brouwer, W., Patel, C.J., Manrai, A.K. et al. Empowering clinical research in a decentralized world.npj Digital Medicine 4, 102 (2021). [1]
^De Brouwer, Walter (2004). The biology of language: the post-modern deconstruction and denarration of modern and pre-modern grand narratives. Universiteit van Tilburg, ISBN978-90-810022-1-9
^Lane, Frederick S. (2003) The naked employee: how technology is compromising workplace privacy, p. 54. AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn, ISBN978-0-8144-7149-4
