Jaap Rameijer was born in 1945 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He served for 15 years in the Royal Netherlands Navy as a weapons engineering officer and for 10 years at Fokker Aircraft Manufacturer as a program manager for helicopters. He gained a Master degree in Law and in Business Administration. He held several high posts in Health Insurance companies, psychiatric hospitals, universities and high schools. He is a man of two worlds. Highly interested in technology and management, but also deeply spiritual. A universal man, with his feet firmly on the ground.