After working 10 years as International Marketing Manager for a worldwide software company, Maarten Boender has been active as an entrepreneur: starting and running successful, small, agile software companies. As co-founder and Product Owner of Sphereon (sphereon.com) Maarten now focuses on Product- and Business Development and on Strategy, like the impact of Blockchain on our industry. Sphereon provides the leading API-platform for Smart Information and Document Processing, a crucial building-block of today’s API economy. Besides thinking about long-term strategy, Maarten finds Product- and Business Development still the most interesting and fulfilling aspects of his daily work.