Maarten van den Belt

Partner European Office at Ruffena Capital

United Kingdom

About

Instrumental in further growth of initiatives in Alternative Finance, mainly in the FinTech area. Focus is on companies which go Cross Border and are on-line. Multi lingual director who has held both executive and non executive roles in a variety of sectors Mainstream career was in International and Domestic corporate and retail financial services. Good contacts at Government level and with investment and financial service institutions Now expanding a portfolio of Non Executive , Advisory and consulting roles. Specialties: New Business Development Inward and outward Investment between West and Eastern Europe Extensive experience of Strategic Development, corporate finance, restructuring, privatisation, capital markets transactions, financial management, regulation and implementation of good corporate governance Financial Markets trading and sales Corporate and Consumer banking Real Estate Financing Electronic payment services Private Equity

Experience

  • Partner European Office at Ruffena Capital Ltd
    Apr 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 4 mos

  • Venture Partner Great Stuff Ventures at Great Stuff Ventures
    May 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 3 mos

    www.greatstuffventures.com

  • Chairman of the Advisory Council at Lendahand
    Mar 2014 - Jan 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos

    Lendahand is the world's leading on-line meso finance lending organisation. Lendahand provides meso credit ( from EUR 1K - EUR 50K ) to give the companies a push in the right direction. At this moment Lendahand raises money in The Netherlands and on-lends this to companies in the Philippines and Colombia. The company has the ambition to grow its funding base to other European Markets and increase the range of countries where it lends in to.

  • Non Executive Director at TMM Real Estate Development plc
    2010 - Oct 2017 · 7 yrs 10 mos

    TMM is Ukraine's leading residential real estate developer.

  • Wermuth Asset Management (2 yrs 6 mos)
    • Advisor
      Nov 2011 - Dec 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Acting as Board Director for WAM's Private Equity Investments Involved in Fundraising for Russia's first Cleantech fund. This fund will be managed by WAM and has as AnchorInvestor the Sovereign Wealth fund of one of Russia's strongest and most advanced regions.

    • CEO and Managing Partner
      Jul 2010 - Nov 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Wermuth Asset Management is a long standing investor in Russia in various alternative asset classes such as Russian Private Equity, Regional real estate assets as well as Quant funds.