Henry Franken

Hendrik Marinus (Henry) Franken (born 1966) is a retired Dutch engineer, enterprise architect and co-founder and former managing director of BiZZdesign, known for his work in the field of systems and control engineering, and business process management.

[1][2] Franken received his MA in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from the University of Twente.

He specialized in systems and control engineering, and in 1994 received his PhD with a thesis entitled "Control system design for walking neuroprostheses."

After graduation Franken started as researcher at the Telematica Instituut, where from 1996 to 2001 he participated in the Testbed research project to develop a virtual test environment for business processes.

[3] In 2001 he founded BiZZdesign with Harmen van den Berg and Harm Bakker[4] In 2001 to 2003 he was also Enterprise architecture consultant for the ING Group.