Senior Board Advisors
Daniel Couvreur
Daniel Couvreur was Managing Director NIBC Belgium since 2002 and member of the Management Team of NIBC Merchant Bank. He has more than 30 years international banking experience, including periods as Algemeen
Directeur Investment Banking KBC Bank between 1996 and 1999 and 17 years experience with Citibank, both in London and Brussels, of which last role as member of the management team of Citibank Belgium. Daniel has extensive transaction experience in corporate finance and extensive risk management advisory roles in London and Belgium. He was previously a member of the Financial Institutions Practice of Monitor Strategic Consulting Group. Daniel has broad board directorship experience: Easdaq , BIAC (Brussels Airport), Oleon NV and KBC real estate and asset management companies. He is a trustee of the Belgian Institute of Corporate Governance (Guberna) and Council Director of The Conference Board’s European Council on M&A. Lic. Doctorandus Economics (K.U.L.) & Diplomé d’Etudes Européennes (U.C.L.)
Joost van der Does de Willebois
Mr. Van der Does has extensive experience in banking in various senior positions, among others managing director of communications and strategy (ING Group) and industry (Royal Dutch Shell). Most recently, he was a member of the Management Committee of NYSE Euronext and CEO of Euronext Amsterdam. He held various senior executive management positions in Rotterdam, New York, Paris, Bordeaux and the French overseas territories in South and Central America. He was also a board member of Dutch Securities Institute, founding member and CFO of the Holland Financial Centre and member of the board of the Dutch employers’ organisation.
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Senior Board Advisors
Koos Tesselaar
After his study architecture and civil engineering, Mr. Tesselaar followed specific education in the field of Corporate Governance at Nijenrode University and Harvard University. He founded a Pan European Direct Marketing company which was sold again in 1998 to TPG, after initially pursuing a career within the construction industry in South Africa, France and the Netherlands. He has been involved in a number of companies as investor and supervisor since 1998. Until 2006, he was CEO of De Boer Tenten, world’s market leader in the rental of temporary housing; and he is still shareholder in this company. He fulfilled the role of supervisor for, amongst others, ABN-AMRO Participaties, Bridgepoint Capital, BNP Paribas and SNS Bank. Further managerial experience through Board memberships was gained within VNO-NCW, Dutch Chamber of Commerce, Stichting Maatschappij en Onderneming, and YPO.
Currently, Mr. Tesselaar is chairman of the Supervisory Board for Royal Saan, Cavendish Publishing International and BDI Investment and board member of Oracle, Strukturio and Friesland Bank Investments.
Philippe de Vicq de Cumptich
Mr. De Vicq started his career in 1980 at Investco, the investment company of the Kredietbank-Almanij Group. In 1991, he joined the management team of Gevaert, a listed investment company active in capital markets and private equity, became member of the Executive Committee and later managing director.
From 2005 till 2010, Mr. De Vicq was managing director of KBC Private Equity. He has broad board directorship experience including Mobistar, Remy Claeys Aluminium, City Hotels, Unie van Redding- en Sleepdienst, LVD, Gemma Frisius, Lannoo Uitgeverij, Lannoo Drukkerij.
Senior Board Advisors
Jan van der Vlist
From 2006 to 2011, Mr. Van der Vlist was Managing Director of NIBC Bank. Before that he was director of Structured Investments of PGGM. Before joining PGGM in 1982, he headed the accounting department and real estate management department of a subsidiary of Verenigde Bedrijven Bredero N.V., which was a major international real estate development and construction company.
Mr. Van der Vlist is also member of the Board of Directors of Matrix European Real Estate Investment Trust Limited (Guernsey).
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Advisory Board
Arnoud Boot
Mr. Boot is Professor of Corporate Finance and Financial Markets at the University of Amsterdam and director of the Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE). He is a member of the Dutch Social Economic Council (SER), the Bank Council of the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) and the Advisory Scientific Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) in Frankfurt. He is also Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London and at the Davidson Institute of the University of Michigan. Prior to his current positions, he was on the faculty of the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago, and during 2000-2001 he was a partner in the Finance and Strategy Practice at McKinsey & Co. In 2008, he was President of the European Finance Association (EFA). Mr. Boot is member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and Chairman of the Royal Netherlands Economic Association.
In addition to his academic activities, professor Boot advises extensively on ownership structure issues, particularly related to the public/private domain. He is also frequently involved in legal cases (expert opinions), and is consultant to several financial institutions and corporations. Mr. Boot also established the Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance, a ”think tank” designed to improve the interaction between theory and practice. Furthermore, he held visiting appointments at several universities and he has written in major academic journals on regulation of financial institutions, the design of securities, corporate governance, capital structure, corporate divestitures and take-overs and rescheduling of sovereign debt.
Dirk Boogmans
Mr. Boogmans is a civil engineer and holds an MBA. In 1980, he started working at Generale Bank and moved in 1981 to Gewestelijke Investeringsmaatschappij Vlaanderen (GIMV), where he was a member of the managing board. From 1998 until 2001, he was a CEO / executive board member board member of Bouwgroep CFE (main
shareholder is Vinci, France). In 2001, he returned to GIMV as CEO and delegated board member until his departure in 2008. Mr. Boogmans is/was a Board
Currently member of, amongst others, CFE, DE Lijn, P&V, Collibra, Caesar Real Estate and Ethias. He is also chairman of the Flemish Council for Science and Innovation and Hercules Invest.
Advisory Board
Baptiest Coopmans
Mr. Coopmans is Managing Director of cable and media company UPC in the Netherlands, a subsidiary of Liberty Global, and chairman of the supervisory board of the Eindhoven University of Technology.
He graduated as an industrial engineer; worked 17 years for Unilever and was chairman and managing director of Unilever in Mexico. From 2006 till end 2011 he was a board member of Royal KPN NV.
Marnix Krop
Mr Krop (Groningen, 1948) holds master's degrees in Law (RU Groningen) and International Relations/European Studies (Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Bologna and Washington, D.C.). In 1989 he joined the Dutch Foreign Service, in which he held positions both in The Hague and at diplomatic posts abroad. From 1998 till 2002
he served as DCM with the Dutch Embassy in Paris. From 2002 till 2006 he was the Director General of European Cooperation at the Ministry. From 2006 till 2009 he served as the Dutch Ambassador to Poland and Belarus. He ended his diplomatic career in Berlin, where from 2009 till 2013 he was the Dutch Ambassador to Germany. Since his retirement in September 2013 Mr. Krop has engaged in various paid and unpaid activities as an
advisor/supervisor, as an author/commentator, and as a professor/public speaker (Krop PBA). He is an Advisor on Internationalisation to the Executive Board of the Radboud University of Nijmegen. He is a member of the
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Advisory Board
Ad Scheepbouwer
Mr. Scheepbouwer has long experience in the Dutch corporate segment and abroad. He has been CEO of TNT for 13 years, and most recently of Royal KPN N.V. which position he held for 10 years before retiring in April 2011. In 2010, Mr. Scheepbouwer was named one of the world's top-50 CEOs by Harvard Business Review.
Currently, Mr. Scheepbouwer is chairman of RFS Holland Holding (Wehkamp) and supervisory board member of Bank Oyens & Van Eeghen. Furthermore, he is chairman of the Supervisory Council of the Maasstad Hospital in Rotterdam and a member of the Supervisory Council of the Foundation for the Dutch National Art Collection.
Ronald Slaats
Mr. Slaats is an accomplished CEO with a 27-year track record of improving and building businesses, setting up international operations and leading managerial teams through periods of change. He is an acknowledged expert and thought leader within the leasing industry.
Mr. Slaats began his career in 1986 at De Lage Landen, a Dutch-based provider of leasing, business and consumer financing solutions. Over the years he held various management positions in the Netherlands and internationally, including in Belgium, Italy, Germany and the US, where he started up De Lage Landen Finance in New York in 1998. He also expanded the presence of De Lage Landen in South America and Asia and in 2009 was appointed CEO, a position he held until September 2013.
Mr. Slaats holds a master’s degree in Dutch private law Catholic University Tilburg and post-graduate management qualifications from EMT Brussels, Insead Fontainbleau and Wharton Business School. He is a member of the Board of Directors of LeaseEurope and the Netherlands American Community Trust.
Advisory Board
Hein Verloop
Mr. Verloop graduated in business administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam and studied law at the University in Utrecht. In 1978 he joined SHV Holdings and had several functions in finance and marketing in the oil & gas and technical installation activities from SHV. From 1986 until 1991 he was director Finance from ITT/Alcatel Netherlands. From 1991 until 1999 he was Director Finance & Personel of the Heerema Offshore Construction Group. From 2000 until 2005 he was CEO of the Schreiner Aviation Group, a company which had as main shareholders HAL Investments and NPM Capital. He was CEO of Driessen Aerospace, a company which had Alpinvest and NPM Capital as main shareholders from 2005 until 2007.
Mr. Verloop is Participatie Commissaris at NPM Capital and has several board positions in family owned companies and companies held by PE firms. In addition he is involved in investment activities in Africa amongst others as Chairman of SOVEC Fund.
