Adriaan is an independent researcher with a basic theme to study how man interacts with his environment dynamically, that is, how man travels.

 

The current thesis is that man is at the beginning of the transformation from money to digital information, towards virtual society, and there is much to learn.

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After completing Gymnasium beta, Adriaan started studying management science at the Rijks Universiteit Groningen (RUG).

After two years, he felt that management science lacked firm knowledge fundaments, evidenced by the changing main paradigma every other two or three years within management theories.

Then he added Philosophy of science as a second study at the RUG.

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When his management science study was completed, he focused on the university (VU) study of Philosophy in Business, meaning 2 things. 1) Philosophising rather than philosophy, i.e. searching how to apply philosophy in concrete real life contexts, and 2) philosophising about business problems. At the time, early 1990s, it was quite controversial as a philosopher to think about business problems, and, to put it bluntly, apply philosophy to generate more profit. Marking the controversial thinking of Adriaan is the fact that, although the whole curriculum was finalised by him, he did not succeed getting approval for three versions of his final thesis on the philosophy of travelling at the VU.

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In the late 1990s, Adriaan focused on his work at a bank and finalised a Master of Financial Economics (MFE) at TIAS university.

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In the period 2001-2006, Adriaan got the opportunity to start a PhD research at the University of Twente (UT), with promotores Bert Bruggink (then CFRO Rabobank) and Hans Achterhuis (professor in social philosophy at UT). In this thesis he investigated a (Rabobank) specific case of the Economic Capital movement, which is in itself an example of the virtual turn in society. Completed in February 2006, it contained an early warning that Basel II could not work for wholesale finance.

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In 2008, together with a creative marketeer, he started an experiment to build a bank for the Creative Industries. Since regulation prohibited the use of the word bank, this was called the Creative Industry Sofa.

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In 2011, Adriaan returned to banking, and works since 2017 as an auditor on model risk. And researching how society changes due to the virtual turn, focusing on drivers of value of information within businesses, as information is becoming the most valuable asset