Arjen Bouman is Data Manager at APG, with 4.5 million participants the largest pension administrator in the Netherlands. Arjen has worked in the pension sector for more than 20 years. First in advisory roles, later in management positions where he was responsible for the implementation of various pension funds. With the rise of Data Management, Arjen made the switch from pension execution to Data Management. Driven by the thought that participants will only receive the pension benefits to which they are entitled if the underlying data is of the right quality and meaning, he and his team at APG laid the foundation for data management. Data quality remains at the core of that.