John, born in 1944 in Hengelo, followed his education at the Secondary Trade School, Marketing Nima A and B, and then, after a commercial career as a sales and marketing manager at Nestlé, started his own business. In cosmetics as director / owner of Nova Trend B.V. He married in 1967 with Ineke, painter and sculptor and especially someone who let him do his thing.
For four years he was part of the foundation board of Castle Doornen burg where he was responsible for the PR and the magazine Floris.

Ferd, born in 1949 as a boy from Rotterdam to Rotterdam parents, grew up mainly in Amsterdam, where he also studied tax law at the UvA. Scion of a family of geneversto kers and fur traders he went down a path of numbers and was employed by KPMG, then still Klyn veld Kraayenhof & co. In 1981 he moved with his breed Amsterdam Maria, to whom he had married in 1973, to Malden because Maria got a pro motion place at the University of Nijmegen.
There he established himself as an independent tax advisor until he thought it was enough on his 70th birthday.
Ferd was sporty and practiced the many sports very meritoriously, without really excelling in a particular sport. After foot ball and volleyball, he threw himself completely into tennis early on.
Despite the fact that he hit a ball daily, the highest achievable was only a third place in the national championship of the 35+ competition. He held – also until his 70th birthday – various board positions at the KNLTB. Under constant pressure from friends, the step to golf proved to be an inevitable one and Maria and he ended up in Bleijenbeek.