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Nerve Centre
The Nerve Centre was founded as a Dutch association called Het Zenuw Centrum (The Nerve Center) in 2003, uniting 12 major Microsoft Business Partners in the Dutch Healthcare Industry searching of talented and Health IT focues health professionals driving new Health IT based projects  and best practices in the Healthcare sector (cure and care). The founder, André Piso, has stated that is planned to form the Nerve Center once it gets permission by Microsoft Corporation, into to a European centric association connected to the MSHUG Microsoft Health Users Group.

About the founder, André Piso

André (J.H.) Piso (born 29 April 1969 in Vlissingen, The Netherlands) is a Dutch businessman. He is currently the Healthcare Lead (full job title is: Director Microsoft Healt Western Europe) of Microsoft Corporation in Europe. After graduating for his Bachelor Degree in Business Economics, Piso studied Social Science at Utrecht University.

Shortly after his military service and while studying, as his first star-tup job, Piso joined for a few years a small group of independent representatives, and started with the import of chemical materials for the automotive industry from the Germany based manufacturing company TUNAP GmbH. In 1995, Piso set his first steps in the IT industry when he joined a privately-held Dutch IT company Score Datacom B.V. (during his stay Score Datacom B.v. acquired by Symbol Technologies Inc. and later Motorola Inc. acquired Symbol Technologies, Inc. in 2007). In 1998 Piso joint International Computers Ltd, or ICL. (ICL was a large British computer hardware, computer software and computer services company that operated from 1968 until 2002 when it was renamed Fujitsu Services Limited after its parent company, Fujitsu.) In 2000 Piso joined Microsoft B.V. (the Dutch subsidairy of Microsoft Corporation) where he became the first lead for the Microsoft Healthcare business in the Netherlands and as of 2007 Piso was promoted and moved to the position of Healthcare Lead for Wester Europe when he joint Microsoft Western Europe Public Sector group.

André Piso founded a Dutch association he called Het Zenuw Centrum (The Nerve Center) in 2003, uniting 12 major Microsoft Business Partners in the Dutch Healthcare Industry searching of talented and Health IT focused health professionals driving new Health IT based projects and best practices. When he was succeeded by Josephine Strijbos as the new Microsoft Health Lead in the Netherlands in 2007, Piso continued to work with the Nerve Centre as European business developer for a period, as tated by him, is planned to form the Nerve Center Europe once it gets permission by Microsoft Corporation, into to a European centric association connected to the MSHUG (Microsoft Health Users Group).