The board of OpenDoc Society consists of the following people:
- Bert Bakker (chair)
- Arthur Buijs (secretary of the board)
- Bob Goudriaan (treasurer)
- Miriam van der Have
- Bas de Lange
- Michiel Leenaars (vice-chair)
- Fabrice Mous
- Tom Peelen (vice-chair)
- Eric Vermaat
Bert Bakker
Bert Bakker (1958) is president of OpenDoc Society, other affiliations include President of the Association for International Labor brokers and the platform M.E.E.R. GGZ. In addition he is a member of the Board of Advisors of ECP-EPN and ambassador for Pax Aid for Children, seeking diversity in the media. He is employed as a senior advisor to international strategy consultants Meines & Partners. From 1994 to 2006 he was a prominent member of the Dutch House of Commons on behalf of D66 as their financial spokesperson. In addition he was involved with economic affairs, defense and media. He was chairman of the inquiry into the fall of Yuguslavian enclave Srebrenica, which led to the fall of the Dutch cabinet. Before he joined parliament he held a number of other positions, including being a correspondent of the Universitaire Pers (University Press) and head of administrative affairs and information of the SER (Social and Economic Council). He became a well-known public figure through his chairmanship of the inquiry that examined the peacekeeping missions of the Dutch army.
Arthur Buijs
Arthur Buijs is director and owner of ArtIeTee. His company is involved in the use of open source software in small and medium enterprise companies. Since 2002 Arthur has been actively involved with the NL.OpenOffice.org project and since fall of 2004 he became co-lead of thisproject. Arthur Buijs was closely involved in in 2007 with the founding of OpenDoc Society.
Bob Goudriaan
Bob Goudriaan (1966) is co-founder of Gendo. After studying tax law at Leiden University, Bob held various positions at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Deloitte all over the world supporting clients at high-tech startups. “Open” innovation and technology have always been Bob's primary areas of interests. At Deloitte he advised both SMB and multinationals in Technology, Media & Telecomms. He was, amongst other things, responsible for the Deloitte Fast 50 elections, a national program for fast-growing technology companies. Besides his work as CEO of Gendo and consultant on open innovation and scenario planning, Bob is Treasurer of the Open Doc Society, and involved in supporting the development and promotion of open document standards to improve interoperability, vendor independence and the preservation of digital documents.
Miriam J. van der Have
Miriam van der Have is partner at Emday BV and Mens|Data Holding, and founder at Newwws.net BV. She has extensive experience with PostScript, pdf, odf, color management, fonts, photography and video. These days Miriam works a lot on html5, css3 and jQuery but also with digital publishing and the Adobe Creative Suite.
Bas de Lange
Bas de Lange is owner at Esper Consultancy, an IT advisory company. Past jobs include project leader at Holland Open. Mr. De Lange has been behind the organisation of a number of open source and open standards related events such as Software Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day. He is very active in a number of open source communities, such as Syllable.
Michiel Leenaars
Michiel Leenaars (1972, Netherlands) is Director of Strategy at NLnet and director of Internet Society Nettherlands. In addition he works for the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) within its subsidiary Netherlands National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF) as an advisor on e-Infrastructure and e-Science. For a number of years he was very active in the European policy body e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG) and has been the lead editor of the e-Infrastructures Roadmap, a long term strategic pan-European vision document maintained by the e-IRG. He has a background in Physics at Technische Universiteit Eindhoven and Theory and history of literature/Visual and verbal communication at Tilburg University. He is active in a number of national and international organisations, such as Gridforum Nederland (secretary of the board), Accessibility.nl, NEN-normcommissie (NC) 381034 'Behandeling en uitwisseling van tekst', the Netherlands' mirror committee of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 'Document description languages and processing languages' (former chair), Petities.nl foundation (treasurer) and Accessibility.nl. From 2006 to 2010 he was member of the strategic committee of the European domain name registry EURId. He regularly publishes articles and columns in a number of publications.
Fabrice Mous works as a high end consultant on strategizing for open IT systems and/or applying open (source) businessmodels in corporations and government organisations at Ictivity. Until 2009 he worked for the Netherlands government at ICTU in the OSOSS and NOiV (Netherlands in Open Connection) program. He is a board member of the Linux Professional Institute and NLLGG (Nederlandse Linux GebruikersGroep Nederland). He has been active in many open source initiatives such as the KDE project.
Tom Peelen is director at consulting company Core Consult. He is currently working as an Architect eGovernment at LOGIUS, the digital government service of the Netherlands Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. He has a broad experience in ICT-services. His experience varies from programming, network design, system management and ICT architecture to project management, process implementation and interim management. His core competences are Project Management – for which Tom is a certified PRINCE2:2009 practitioner - ICT Infrastructure Architecture – for which he holds an “All-round Senior IT-architect” certification by SCIA - and ITIL Service Management – for which Tom is certified by EXIN. Tom specializes in open standards and open source software. Previous employers include IBM, LogicaCMG and Volmac.
Eric Vermaat
Eric Vermaat is Managing director of Open IT Nederland BV, a company focussed on Consultancy, Project Management and data center services in the area of integration of Open Source with a strong focus on the public sector.