Arjan van Rooijen

Arjan van Rooijen founded Tridion in 1999. During the intial years of Tridion Ajran was, as a Chief Architect, responsible for direction of research & devolopment and execution of Tridion's technological vision. In his current role at SDL he focuses on Analyst relations and helps to set company and product strategy based on his market insight and vision.

Arjan started his career founding the company '3WIS Internet Service' (1994), 3WIS managed serveral high-end technical Internet project for clients such as the Dutch railways, all public Dutch broadcasting companies and publishing companies like Wolters Kluwer and Percombinatie (leading newspaper company in Holland). In 1997 3WIS merged with Topics interactive factory to form Twinspark Interactive People. As Technical Director at Twinspark, Arjan was responsible for the technical excecution of projects and product development. Twinspark, in turn, was acquired in July 1999 by AGENCY.COM.

Arjan holds a degree in Computer Science, has advance expertise in the content management area and was earlier nominated to VWB Media's annual 'ICT Manager of the Year' award with six other Dutch ICT managers.