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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.

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.

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.

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.