Jurriaan van Rijswijk

v.l.n.r.: Jurriaan van Rijswijk, Max Westerman en Ben Sawyer

Jurriaan van Rijswijk
Jurriaan is pinpointed as the first game consultant in the Netherlands. He started in 1981 with gaming by programming Pong on his Sinclair ZX81 spectrum mounted to a black and white TV. During his study at the university he focused on climatological models and Geographic Information Systems. At his first job he let professionals literally play with business and process models. The first ‘real’ serious game development he was involved in was for the second World Water Forum in 1996 organized by the UN.

For over fifteen years (serious) gaming has been Jurriaan’s main professional focus. He knows what’s going on in the mass consumer on-line gaming market and in the industry for applied games.

He is an independent producer of more than 300 (serious) games and he is a serial entrepreneur. He’s secretary of the Dutch Games Association. Last year he founded the Games for Health Europe Foundation, of which he is the chairman, and he is responsible for organizing the first Games for Health Europe Conference.