Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Senior Ethics, Compliance & Legal Executive with 25+ years of international experience across technology, FMCG, retail and financial services. Proven track record in building global and regional compliance functions from the ground up, advising Executive Boards and Audit Committees, leading teams across high-risk markets, and designing risk-based compliance, investigations, whistleblowing, anti-bribery, third-party risk and governance programs. Experienced in listed multinationals, complex regulatory environments and post-acquisition integrations.
Responsible for the compliance strategy of Carlsberg, reporting to the CEO of the Carlsberg Group with a dotted reporting line to the Chairman of the Audit Committee. Member of the Integrity counsel chaired by the CFO.
Co-develop and implement Starbucks compliance strategy and program in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Providing advice to Leadership on Starbucks’ compliance strategy in 6 wholly-owned West-European markets and 27 joint-venture,licensee and franchise markets in the Middle –East, South and Eastern-Europe. Provide in-person compliance training to all markets and on-going support to business leadership in all markets; focus on FCPA, Import/Export Control, Third party Due Diligence (new business partners and suppliers) Custom Brokerage. On-line training courses on Anti-Bribery, Code of Conduct, Conflict of Interest, Insider Trading. Monitoring visits of high corruption-risk markets including Russia, Greece, Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Investigation of (anonymous) allegations of Compliance breaches. Due diligence of third party suppliers including SDN screening, updating New Business Developments due diligence questionnaire (Joint Ventures, new licensees and channels).
Interim Compliance Services
Providing advise to the Executive Board member responsible for Real Estate during quarterly reporting meetings, to the Group Compliance Officer and CEO’s of Global Real Estate entities on daily basis. Not only with respect to strategic issues but also on down to earth topics like Client Due Diligence.
Advisor to the Executive Board, Group Compliance Officer and Senior Management of ING’s European Insurance, Asset Management and Real Estate entities. Successfully put compliance on the agenda of ING’s European insurance entities. Responsible for hiring, firing and semi-annual assessment of direct reports. Wrote (in conjunction with several others) and implemented a new Compliance Code.
Responsible for monitoring the global Asset Management activities –including a Trust company- with direct reports in Europe, Asia and the America’s. Providing advise to both the businesses and the General Counsel on topics like anti-bribery, gifts & entertainment issues, conflicts of interest, know-you-customer.