About us

GuruScan is found by Dion Slijp and Bart Verheijen. The first version of GuruScan was developed within Océ R&D in 2003 (named ExpertFinder back then). After this initial development followed the first pilot at Océ R&D. In 2006 an improved version was applied in the European Knowledge Management research project Metis. Metis was a project of Telematica Instituut (the Netherlands) with Océ and Basell as industrial partners. From the academic world the universities of Eindhoven, Twente and Delft were involved. As a last activity within this research project the second pilot was conducted at the Telematica Instituut. Besides the Metis project there were also a few installations in the field of primary education.

Based upon these promising user experiences, Dion and Bart decided to commercialize GuruScan in a spin-off from Océ. Supported by an exclusive license from Océ for free usage of the ExpertFinder technology, the core of the GuruScan software.

Dion Slijp

Dion studied technical and business-oriented computing science at the Radboud University Nijmegen. After his internship at KPN Research in Groningen he joined Océ R&D in 2001. There he developed and realized serveral innovative concepts for diverse customer problems.

On the first of March 2008, he made the transfer to the Océ Operating company in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. There he was responsible as a projectmanager for their internet activities.

Bart Verheijen

Bart studied organic chemistry and business administration at the Radboud University Nijmegen. After his graduation in 2005 he joined Océ R&D as a technical researcher.

From 2005 till 2007 he worked as application researcher, primarily in the education market. Digitalization, personalization and copyright were his focus in this research. From the beginning of 2008 he works as a research business developer to find development-partners for the MetalJet project, a direct metal printing technology of Océ R&D.