The foundation is chaired by Nellie Harms, who has been an apprentice for a number of years and has been building and playing cellos very fanatically, and has recently started working on two violins. That expresses ambition. A short quote from the curriculum vitae that she sent: “I worked for 35 years in higher education at the VU University in Amsterdam. The last ten years as director of education at the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences. I was trained as a biochemist / microbiologist. ”

The secretariat is in the hands of Peter Plönes, also a pupil, not very long busy, building a violin. In the coming years there is a lot to be arranged, to be managed, and it must also have quality (just like with something delicate like air traffic control, for example). In his own words: “[…] I have now retired after a long career as an air traffic controller combined with various management positions within Air Traffic Control the Netherlands. In these positions, in addition to my core tasks, I have fulfilled many ancillary tasks in the field of employee participation, leadership and management development, diversity, noise pollution and committees for legal and legal status disputes. ”