Jan Vereecken

Jan Vereecken is the Chief Product Officer at Meeco; a personal data & distributed ledger platform that enables people to securely exchange data via the API-of-Me with the people and organisations they trust.

In 2017, Jan co-founded Juru; a Belgium based start-up developing an identity platform using blockchain technology. The focus was to improve the administrative and privacy aspects of modern digital life, through reducing the friction of onboarding to new products and services.

In his role as Juru co-founder and technical leader, Jan defined the architecture for several projects at Digipolis. Projects involved GDPR management, a ‘Business Rules Engine’ product, that enabled Antwerp City to assign access and manage rights to (self) managed teams via their platform ecosystem of city services and a new Identity Provider solution, able to operate in a federated landscape, with a self-sovereign identity component.

Jan is an experienced IT professional with Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) domain expertise. His focus has been on innovation within enterprise teams, leveraging his start-up and entrepreneurial experience in leading teams. Specifically, he was retained to develop solutions to manage costs and increase operational efficiency.

Prior to Meeco and Juru, Jan was involved in several other start-ups, responsible for the architecture design together with the development of software services. Throughout Jan’s IT career he has been involved in ventures where he was responsible for determining the underlying technology decisions that would enable performance at scale.

It is this expertise that he brings to his role at Meeco; directing the development of products, application of patents and integration with SVX that form the Meeco API platform.

Jan is actively involved in applying the Standards from various working groups including verified claims, consent management and identity. Together with active participation in the blockchain community.