Carel Mackenbach (1959) has - after receiving master degrees in history and sociology - worked with Hoogovens (now Corus/Tata) for 10 years in different positions, lastly in marketing management. From 1996 onwards he has been a consultant. He is specialised in business development/ innovation in information intensive sectors such as Media (a.o. WoltersKluwer, WBP Group, Bertelsmann) and Transport & Logistics (a.o. TNT), Education (a.o. Professional University of Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, Open University) and Public Broadcasting (a.o. NCRV, KRO). In the past couple of years his consulting practice has included more governmental projects, like the electronic learning dossier, a university program for routing bioclinical material and a court of law. Since 2007 he is also market information strategy advisor to business service organizations in India and travels frequently to cities like Mumbai, Pune, New Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore. He has been interviewed by Felix Rottenberg in the VPRO TV program Tegenlicht. View the broadcast (in Dutch). He has co-authored an article on the future of publishing (in Dutch: FD Strategie Magazine, De Mediatrechter). He has presented a new angle on Content as a Service (CaaS) as a keynote speaker at the PressPlay2008 conference of the Professional University of Amsterdam. In 2009 he has published an article about the crises of 1873, 1929 and 2008 and the historical pattern of conjunctive political and economic disruptions (in Dutch). In May 2010 he co-authored an article on the Creative Industries (in Dutch: FD Extra ICT, De Creatieve Industrie, Het einde is nog lang niet in zicht). He was keynote speaker during the World Congress on IT in Amsterdam (May 25-27, 2010), presenting a novel solution to identity management in the cloud. His future fiction thriller The Day Time was Hacked is available at Amazon (paperback and Kindle), on Mobipocket (eReader), and several bookshops in The Netherlands. He is currently working on an adaptation for a film script.