Founder of Doorakkeren BV, Derk Johan Haank is a Netherlands; Dutch businessperson who has been at the head of 7 different companies and holds the position of Chairman-Supervisory Board for TomTom NV, Chairman-Supervisory Board at TomTom International BV (a subsidiary of TomTom NV) and Chief Executive Officer for Springer Nature.

He is also on the board of 8 other companies.

Mr. Haank previously occupied the position of Co-Managing Director at Springer Nature Deutschland GmbH, Chief Executive Officer at Springer-Verlag GmbH, Chief Executive Officer at Springer Science+Business Media LLC, Chief Executive Officer at Elsevier BV and Research Manager at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Derk Johan Haank received a graduate degree from the University of Amsterdam.