Henk Jan Knol graduated in 1989 at the Twente University (computer science) and started his career at Utopics and acted in several director roles at Utopics, Ordina and Devote. In 2012 he became one of the founders of Topicus and within Topicus he started with Open Source based services. An important part of the SaasS-services at Topicus is based on Open Source components. Topicus has become a reknowned fast growing software house where over a 1000 professionals are working with devotion and pleasure on successful and relevant IT solutions for the eductional, public and finance sector.