Founder of Doorakkeren BV, Derk Johan Haank is a Dutch businessperson who has been the head of 7 different companies and presently is Chairman-Supervisory Board of TomTom NV and Chairman-Supervisory Board for TomTom International BV (a subsidiary of TomTom NV).

He is also on the board of 8 other companies.

He previously occupied the position of Chief Executive Officer of Springer Nature, Chief Executive Officer of Elsevier BV, Co-Managing Director at Springer Nature Deutschland GmbH, Chief Executive Officer of Springer Science+Business Media LLC, Chief Executive Officer for Springer-Verlag GmbH and Research Manager at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

He received a graduate degree from the University of Amsterdam.