Harold Goddijn (born April 23, 1960) [1] is the CEO of the Dutch consumer/business electronics company TomTom since 2001.
In 1991, Goddijn's wife Corinne Vigreux left her position as sales director for Psion to help found Palmtop Software; a company that specializes in creating applications for portable pocket computers.
[4] Goddijn invested in Palmtop Software, building a partnership with the co-founders Peter-Frans Pauwels and Pieter Geelen (who are still running the company with him today).
Next, Harold made the decision to move into manufacturing hardware solutions, launching the first TomTom GO in 2004.
Goddijn, who now lives in Amsterdam, is married to Corinne Vigreux who is Co-Founder and Managing Director of the Consumer Business Unit since 2008 at TomTom.