Derk-Jan founded AELS in 2006 and since then he is the general manager of the organisation. His current tasks are overseeing aircraft acquisition,

the sales departments and finance. Derk-Jan is also AFRA’s Deputy Director. He's been around old aircraft from the day he started working on his MSc

thesis on end-of-life aircraft at the Delft University of Technology, “I have definitely done Malcolm Gladwell’s 10.000 hours of practice to achieve mastery

in the field of aircraft end-of-life.”

After work Derk-Jan “tries” to play guitar and develop his unique skill of telling terrible inappropriate jokes.

His most memorable aviation moment was: “Last flight of Boeing 707 with original engines in 2011 after which we disassembled it.”

Derk-Jan 先生在 2006 年创办了 Aircraft End-of-Life Solutions 公司并一直担任公司的总经理一职。他目前负责飞机采购、销售和财务工作。他还

自 2015 年 6 月起担任飞机拆解回收协会 (Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association, AFRA) 的总裁一直至今。

他于 1998-2005 年就读荷兰的代尔夫特理工大学攻读研究生时，学术论文就是关于生命末期飞机资产价值管理，至今一直从事老旧飞机拆解和价值回收

业务。