Gert Goossens is the CEO and a co-founder of Target Compiler Technologies, the leading provider of retargetable tools to accelerate the design, programming and verification of application-specific instruction-set processors.
Before founding Target in 1996, Gert Goossens was affiliated with the IMEC research centre in Leuven, Belgium, where he headed research groups on behavioural synthesis and software compilation for embedded systems. Target is a spin-off of IMEC.
Gert Goossens holds several patents in the area of processor modelling and software compilation, and has authored or co-authored around 40 papers in electronic design automation, several of which were awarded best paper awards. In 1997, Target was awarded the European Information Technology Prize.