BeyondTrees is a "sole proprietorship" (eenmanszaak) started on April 1st 2008 by Anne Veling. So the company consists solely of Anne Veling.

Our aim is to bridge the gap between technology and people by using both advanced technology and quality processes, as well as using well-defined processes and tools to ensure that project management and end users are aligned with what developers build.

The name "beyondTrees" has the following meaning to us

• trees or hierarchies have been used to structure human knowledge for a long time and are very useful, but they are limited in what they can represent. We feel that using a network structure (or multiple trees) to represent information, will make things easier. We noticed that 'looking beyond the trees' was exactly what we had been doing our entire professional life
• we can help you see the forest through the trees; it is key to focus on the whole picture when dealing with IT, and not on just a single issue

Anne Veling is an experienced IT professional. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Twente (graduated in 1996). He specialized in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing.
Since then he has worked at several companies as a developer, and later as a software architect and technical project manager.