Erwin de Jager studied economics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. After graduating in 1994, Erwin went to work for the National Social Insurance Institute (LISV). He worked on economic models in connection with the financing of the unemployment fund and led consultations with the representatives of the industries on the amount of the premiums. In 1999, Erwin was working as a Management Consultant and Project Manager for DCE Consultants. He advised and led projects in the National Government (Ministry of Justice), provincial government (South Holland and Gelderland), municipalities (Amsterdam) and financial sector (Interpay) to conceal from the field of information supply function and quality of business processes. From 2005 Erwin works as an independent project and program manager in the Utilities sector. For Eneco Erwin worked as a Information Manager where he brought alignment between business and IT department. In addition he led several projects to improve the quality of the IT function within Eneco. In 2006 Erwin led the project for Energy Clearing House (ECH) to built a Register for Measurement Data for the Dutch energy companies. From 2007 till now he is the project manager for Energy Data Services Netherlands (EDSN) to built a Registry for Connection Data for the regional grid operators in the Netherlands. This project, together with Logica, is one of the biggest SOA implementations in the Netherlands.