Peter Hagedoorn (1945) is trained as a physics engineer and has followed a career in which he has worked alternately for the public sector and business. He worked for Shell, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Bull-Netherlands, RAET, Hagemeyer and Océ. He was Director of the Millennium Platform that was led by Jan Timmer, former CEO of Philips. He was the first CIO Award winner of the year in the Netherlands, first chairman of the CIO-Platform Nederland, in which capacity he was also on the Board of the European CIO Association. He was later appointed Secretary General of this organization. Today he writes articles, columns and books about the digitalization of the society. www.thefluidsociety.com