About the Authors

Henk Jonkers is a Senior Customer Success Consultant at Bizzdesign, delivering consultancy and training to customers in Enterprise Architecture and related areas, including Enterprise Security Architecture and Capability-Based Planning. He has been involved in the development of the ArchiMate language since the beginning, and actively contributes to the activities of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum.

Iver Band is VP of Architecture at Genesis Financial Solutions, and a former Chair and Vice-Chair of the ArchiMate Forum. He led the development of several White Papers published by The Open Group, and contributed to the second and third major versions of the ArchiMate Specification. He holds the TOGAF 9 Certified and ArchiMate 3 Practitioner certifications from The Open Group. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a Certified Information Professional, an AHIP Information Technology Professional, and a Prosci Certified Change Consultant.

Dick Quartel is a Senior Research Consultant at Bizzdesign. In this role he contributes to the development and improvement of Bizzdesign’s products and services, is involved in research projects, supervises MSc students and interns, and performs consultancy assignments. In addition, he is an author of many scientific and professional publications, and an author of the ArchiMate Specification. Previously, he worked as a Senior Researcher at Novay (formerly Telematica Instituut), where he acted as researcher and project manager and contributed to the definition and acquisition of research projects, and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente in the areas of distributed systems design, protocol design and implementation, and middleware systems.

Marc Lankhorst is Managing Consultant and Chief Technology Evangelist at Bizzdesign. He is responsible for market development, consulting, and coaching on digital business design and Enterprise Architecture, and spreading the word on the ArchiMate modeling language for EA. His expertise and interests range from Enterprise Architecture and business process management to agile methods, portfolio management, and digital business design. Previously, Marc was a Senior Member of Scientific Staff at Novay (formerly Telematica Instituut), where he managed the collaborative R&D project that developed the initial version of the ArchiMate language. He leads the core team of The Open Group ArchiMate Forum that has defined the new version of the standard.