About the consultant
Not the author.
The consultant.
Authors get to finish their sentences. Consultants get asked, at minute 58, whether it's amber or red.
(fine-liner, not a headshot)
Field notes on the consultant
- Name
- to follow
- Occupation
- Turning steering committees into decisions. Twenty years of complex change in banks and asset managers.
- Natural habitat
- The meeting room where the board is about to decide something. Or about to not decide something, which is where he comes in.
- Career path
- Group Treasury, then Asset & Liability Management, then Private Banking, then Asset Management, then AI governance and crypto convergence. Each step slightly harder to explain at birthday parties.
- Languages
- Dutch, English and German. Also fluent in PowerPoint. Conversational in Excel.
- Favourite colour
- Purple. One cell at a time.
- Has survived
- Post-merger integrations, data migrations, regulatory deadlines, and a Priority 1 SteerCo scheduled on a Friday at 17:00.
- Pet peeve
- Twenty minutes on amber versus red, and no decision.
- Signature question
- “So what do we decide today?”
The serious version
Strategy into programmes that actually get delivered.
Twenty years delivering complex change in banks and asset managers: from a foundation in Group Treasury at ABN AMRO and ING, through Asset & Liability Management, into Private Banking at Bethmann Bank and Asset Management within Allianz, and since 2024 into AI governance and crypto convergence.
On time, business case in view, stakeholders on board, hands-on from boardroom to runbook. Trusted advisor at ABN AMRO since 2005 and at Allianz since 2021. Entrepreneur for 11 years, running a cross-border consulting boutique in the Netherlands and Germany.
Large transformation programmes
Post-merger integration, branchification, operating model roll-outs and data migrations. Sets up the governance, runs the PMO and keeps C-level dependencies under control until the last migration is done.
Regulation that lands in systems and processes
From gap assessment to live reporting. Combines knowledge of the rules with knowledge of the data, and makes sure IT, processes and people are ready on day one.
Treasury, ALM and liquidity management
ILAAP, LCR, FTP, central liquidity functions and front-to-finance treasury platforms, with every business case assessed on balance sheet and P&L impact.