Dr. van Tunen is an experienced CEO in AgFood biotech, including 19 years at KeyGene NV, NL as CEO. He has experience in Supervisory Boards, Executive Boards of organizations in different parts of the world, and particularly in Intellectual Property management and enforcement.

Following his leadership role at KeyGene, he currently serves as an Advisor of several companies including RijkZaan, AnnoGen, arbitrator of the ACLP, (supervisory) Board Member of the Water R&D organization KWR, FoodValley, and a coach of agbiotech start-up companies at StartLife In Wageningen and Biotope in Ghent.

Dr. van Tunen is regularly involved in assessments for venture capital of potential investments in promising agbiotech start-up companies. He is Chair of the Program Steering Committee of a Thermo Cas9 Gene Editing project of BioTech Booster in The Netherlands.