Jan-Erik de Boer
Springer Science+Business Media

Jan-Erik de Boer is executive vice president of IT at Springer Science+Business Media where he is responsible for leading Springer's technology development and innovations in addition to standardizing the infrastructure across Springer's many business units. In 2000, he became Manager of IT Operations at Kluwer Academic Publishers and two years later was in charge of all IT. When Kluwer merged with Springer in 2004, his role was to merge the infrastructures. In 2007, he was promoted to his current role.

Prior to joining Kluwer, Jan-Erik was IT manager at Housing Corporation “Binnen de Ringvaart” and at Relan ICT. He is married with two children and lives in Roosendaal, Netherlands.

Gary Donaldson: Jan-Erik, thank you very much for agreeing to participate in this interview.