Han van Loon was born in Netherlands, grew up in Australia and returned to Europe in 2000. He has held a wide variety of jobs and positions around the world, including engineering, research and development, quality management, agile coaching, process engineering, university professorships, personal executive coach and executive positions in some of the most respected companies in their field. He has been a long standing member of the international standards committees for software and systems engineering, and process assessment; an IEEE Thought Leader workshop initiator, and a popular conference speaker. His interests lie in helping people and enterprises strive for excellence.