Rick van der Kooij is Director Datacenter Application Engineering at Mitsubishi Electric Europe B.V., Factory Automation EMEA and thus responsible for bringing Mitsubishi Electric’s solutions towards the data center market. Before joining Mitsubishi Electric in the beginning of 2022, Rick van der Kooij has occupied several positions within the data center industry focusing on the daily operations and management of data centers. His drive is to improve the overall efficiency of data centers and supply data centers with the best solutions to do this.