Who we are

Ardjan Baan bears overall responsibility for Rappit as Chief Executive Officer, driving the direction the company takes and leading its growth plans.
Ardjan has a background in marketing & sales operations and holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Paul Baan has a broad experience of more than 25 years in different management and board positions within the Vanenburg organization. He bears financial overall responsibility for Rappit as Chief Financial Officer, with a focus on the financial and legal affairs of the company, and is the managing director of the total Vanenburg Group company. Paul holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Hans Don is Rappit’s technological thought leader and as Chief Technology Officer he maximizes the alignment between our products and the needs of our customers. He uses his 20+ years of knowledge and experience in traditional IT, upcoming technologies and business concepts to lead our product vision and oversee the design of business solutions for our customers. Hans is a Certified Professional Google Cloud Architect, Data Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Cloud Developer and holds a master’s degree in Agriculture & Natural Environments from Wageningen University.

Bernhard Baan manages the daily operations as Chief Operating Officer at Rappit, including customer related processes and supporting functions.

Bernhard has a background in marketing (holding an MSc. degree in Marketing from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam), and hospitality, (also bearing overall responsibility for Kasteel De Vanenburg, which is a hotel-, restaurant-, convention- and wedding venue, next to being the Vanenburg Group headquarters).

In his role of SVP Research & Development, he is responsible for conceptualizing, building, and taking to market our Rappit Suite, containing products that accelerate intelligent application development on Google Cloud.

JK Vinodh has always been passionate about continuously reducing development time & increasing quality and bringing products faster to the customers at much affordable cost and increased value. His ambition is to democratize IT development on a large scale – with reduced cost for application development, increased speed, time and quality.

He has 12+ experience in the cloud including 7+ years of highly successful application delivery using the Google Cloud. He has proven expertise in both product and application development, innovation, delivery, architecture, requirements gathering, and optimally mapping user requirements into workable software and cost optimization.

As Product Manager for ‘Cordys Process Factory’ (CPF), which was a PaaS RAD tool for building and running enterprise workflow apps on the cloud, he played a key role in taking the product successfully to many large customers, enabling them to build over 1000 apps using the platform.

JK Vinodh has a Masters degree in computer science (MCA) and has over 25 years of experience in business software development. Before joining Rappit, he was working in Baan Company, Invensys, SSA Global, and Cordys.

Agalya Kitherian is the head of AI/ML and Cloud Operations practice. She is passionate about designing and implementing advanced data analytics and AI/ML solutions to help enterprises optimize their resources efficiently, enhance customer experience, and improve profitability. She is also responsible for the CloudOps and Support team that builds and operates secure cloud landing zones for clients. Agalya has 25 years of software development experience and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the Bharathiar University Coimbatore, India.

Ruud Oudman is a driven Sales Director (SaaS/PaaS) with over 20 years of experience from start-up companies to enterprises. During his career, he has built teams that consistently outperformed by understanding our customers’ core needs and building relationships that provide value.

Huibert de Vries is responsible for product marketing. Huibert holds a MSc. degree in Business administration from Rotterdam School of Management. He spent over 12 years in marketing, sales, program management and business development roles at a multinational before joining Rappit. Being co-author of a book about Open Source software, Huibert is passionate about creating business impact with innovative and meaningful software.

Ganesh has over 20 years of experience in software development which includes product development, development and implementation of ERP, and Solution development. At Rappit, he is responsible for all solution development and support teams. Ganesh holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from Pondicherry Central University.

He has experience in developing middleware projects and enabling integration to backend applications / ERPs like SAP, Baan, Peoplesoft, and Microsoft Dynamics, among others. He is also experienced in developing complete tailor-made & fully customizable Logistics ERP from scratch using open stack technologies. Before joining Vanenburg, Ganesh worked in Baan, IBM – La Gaude, and Cordys in various roles like Software Developer, Implementation, Technical Lead & Product architect.
He is passionate about designing & implementing highly scalable & performable enterprise applications using Open stack & cloud technologies.

Brigitte Janssen is a senior energetic business leader with over 20 years of marketing experience in creating markets, increasing brand awareness, and revenue growth at (international) ICT corporate organizations (B2B).

Christo Saayman is a results-oriented Delivery Director with over 15 years of experience in operations, currently driving delivery excellence at Vanenburg in the Netherlands. He thrives on the challenge of streamlining processes, enhancing efficiency, and ensuring successful project delivery.

Julian Baan leads the design efforts at Rappit as Head of Design, overseeing the visual direction of our product suite, and customer projects, and supporting marketing and sales initiatives. With a strong commitment to building a cohesive and innovative design team, Julian ensures that all design work at Rappit maintains consistency and aligns with our vision, ultimately driving the company’s success.

Julian holds a Bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design from ArtEZ University of the Arts. He has extensive experience in the design industry, previously working as a Designer at Silo before joining Rappit in 2022.

Shirley is a very motivated, energetic person with excellent people management, judgement as well as conflict handling skills. Her professionality as her pleasant personality makes her an all round HR Director. HR is her passion. In various positions she has always been involved with personnel and organizational matters. At the beginning in a more HR advisor rol. A common thread is that she has always worked in the IT industry.’

‘I get satisfaction from my work when I can align the organization and personal interests of employees. When people work together with success, passion, and pleasure, then my mission is accomplished.’

Magesh Sahasranamam is General Manager in India and has demonstrated experience in IT products, IT services, ITES, and start-up environments. He is skilled in Talent acquisition, campus hiring, volume hiring, and Just-in-time hiring. HR consulting experience for incubation setups/start-ups. Proven experience in compensation & benefits management, statutory compliance, talent management, and Retention.

Jan Baan has over 45 years of entrepreneurial and business leadership experience in the software industry. Internationally recognized for his key role in creating the worldwide market for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software, Jan is a self-made serial entrepreneur and philanthropist.

Jan founded Baan Company in 1978, soon after attending Business College. With the development of his first software package in 1979, Jan started what was to become a pioneering career in the IT industry around Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software. Under Jan’s stewardship, Baan Company grew from a $35 million company in the early 1990s to $680 million in 1998. Baan became the number 2 ERP player in the software industry.

In the late 1990s, Jan became a highly successful venture capitalist by focusing on software innovation. He was an early investor in the on-demand collaborative software company WebEx Communications, later on acquired by Cisco Systems for $3 billion, as well as an early backer of Top Tier, which was subsequently sold to SAP for $400 million.

In 2001, Jan founded Cordys with a mission to solve the IT implementation and change issues faced by today’s extended enterprise by enabling an organization to be more responsive to changing business conditions.Customers leveraging the benefits of their software included the Dutch Ministry of Defence, Siemens, Mercer, Pacific Blue Cross and Tata Steel.In 2013, Cordys was acquired by OpenText, the leader in Enterprise Information Management, and is now the corner-stone for its long-term strategy.

Willem van Enter, a software industry veteran, has a proven track record of over 30 years in sales & marketing, partner management and general management. In his current capacity as Strategic Advisor, Willem is advising the management team and key executives in the growth phase of the company, with a special focus on commercial growth. In his former role he was leading the commercial activities at Rappit as Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to joining Rappit, Willem held senior management roles at Baan Company, Oracle, VMware and most recently as Vice President EMEA for low-code development platform company OutSystems where he built up the business, growing revenue by 10 times in 8 years.

Subramanian Ramanathan is our Indian veteran with over 30 years of experience and one of the first employees back in the days of Baan Company in India. As strategic advisor, he is advising the board and chairman regarding our strategy and operations. He is also involved in helping the organization realize its full potential in India and works closely with the team in the Netherlands.