Netherlands
Risk and compliance executive | electronic trading | FICC and equity | securities and derivatives | cross jurisdictional operations | institutional clients and counterparties | market structure | market integrity Held senior leadership roles at listed multilateral venues and proprietary trading firm, managed regulatory and governance transitions as well as strategic ventures into new asset classes, over a decade of experience as an EU regulator, intimate knowledge of European financial law, extensive network in the regulatory community and financial sector, open and caring people manager, engaging public speaker
Managing Director (statutair directeur) of FXSpotStream Europe BV, responsible for risk and compliance, MLRO, managing day-to-day operations.
Responsible for regulatory compliance in EEA and EFTA for MarketAxess NL B.V. (an MTF operator under AFM and DNB supervision) and MarketAxess Post-Trade B.V. (a DRSP under ESMA supervision) and compliance monitoring for Europe and Asia, integrating RFQ-hub into MarketAxess' control framework, managing a team of three across Singapore, Amsterdam, and London.
An electronic trading platform for equities (ETF’s) and listed & OTC derivatives, owned by a consortium formed by Virtu Financial, responsible for establishing its risk and compliance framework, obtaining regulatory permissions (MTF, RTO/arranging) for RFQ-hub to operate in the EEA, UK, Switzerland, Singapore and Australia.
Responsible for compliance for all European operations with entities based in Amsterdam, London and Jersey, across ETF’s, fixed income and digital assets. Lead a department of around twenty people, managing four teams based in Amsterdam and London, each owning one of the compliance pillars (Regulatory/Member Compliance, AML and Monitoring, Trading Compliance (including MiFIR reporting and ORK), & Market Surveillance).
Managing Director (statutair directeur), Head of Risk, Head of Compliance, and MLRO for Tradeweb EU, an investment firm that operates electronic trading venues (MTF and OTF), and provides data reporting (APA), and brokerage services (RTO and MPT), managing a team of three across Amsterdam and London.
Policy lead on market structure, market integrity and commodities issues, advisor to the board on multi-annual corporate strategy, representative at ESMA's Corporate Finance Standing Committee and Commodity Derivatives Task Force, CESR’s Transparency Expert Group, Review Panel, and Short Selling Task Force, and IOSCO's Committee on Derivatives (C7).