Jaco Zijlstra
Jaco Zijlstra is VP, Products and Platforms at Springer Nature. Jaco has close to 30 years of experience in the digital publishing business. While he worked in education, business to business and professional publishing for the last 14 years, his experience in scientific publishing stems from 15 years at Elsevier Science prior to that. Until recently he served as Head of Global Product Management in Wolters Kluwer’s Global Platform Organization (GPO), responsible for product development strategy, asset portfolio management, marketing GPO products and services and the overall GPO strategy. At Springer Nature, working closely with Sales and Marketing on the one hand and IT on the other, Jaco’s team is responsible for determining and executing the development of Springer Nature’s portfolio of digital products and online platforms.