ApacheCon US 2008 Speaker

Hans Bakker


Hans (J.C) Bakker has more than 30 years experience in IT related functions and is currently the founder/CEO of AntWebsystems Co.Ltd in Thailand. He is an active advocate of Apache OFBiz and open source in general and provides presentations to local, EU and US organizations regularly. AntWebsystems is an outsourcing software development company which specializes in providing services around the Apache OFBiz ERP system. The company is servicing companies in the US and Europe and is working with a number of partners to be able to provide local support. Previous to this position he leaded an Internet services company in the Netherlands providing content management products for the dutch market. During the first half of the nineties, he worked for a large record company where he developed, with a team of programmers, an artist royalty system for 4 countries in Europe and in the US. During the eighties he coordinated for a US multinational the software change management of a large team of programmers in Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the US.