Jan Baan

His father was a carpenter, and his grandfather on his mother's side was cofounder of a regional bus company.

[2] At the age of 16, Baan started working at a meatworks, leaving secondary school without a degree.

Mid 1970s Baan started working as a consultant, and shortly managed the financial department of a large company.

[7][8] In 2010, Cordys Switzerland AG was founded as an independent legal entity according to Swiss law.

He managed to combine the prohibition on labor on Sunday with virtually unimpeded services to customers by working in different time zones.

The downturn of the company in 1999 was a reason for the establishment of the De Keursteen Stichting that fights financial abuses in reformational circuit.