Rye, New York, United States
A seasoned banker with over two decades of experience, I began my career as a trainee at ING Bank, working in various departments before joining the Transaction Services team 12 years ago. In 2016, my family and I relocated to the United States, where my primary assignment was to establish a Transaction Services franchise. Our team currently comprises four disciplines: • Transaction Services Sales: Led by Lise Gjertsen, this team specializes in Payment and Cash Management and Trade Finance solutions in Europe and the USA. • Working Capital Solutions: Under the leadership of Nadine Ghandour, this team of specialists structures and leads Supply Chain Finance, Receivable Finance, Securitization, and Trade Finance transactions. • Product Management: Headed by Laurence Amar, the Product Management team for ING Transaction Services in the region strives to provide clients with state-of-the-art solutions. • Liquidity Management: Pascal ter Haak serves as the liaison officer for Bank Mendes Gans in the Americas region, specializing in various cash pooling solutions that offer clients flexibility and access to scattered cash positions. Additionally, Pascal advises clients on efficiently managing intracompany flows and netting solutions. As a region, we are strategic for ING’s Transaction Services offering and a crucial revenue contributor for the franchise. KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS: •Proven track record in: 1. Cash management 2. Liquidity management/ cash pooling 3. International banking 4. SEPA. 5. Optimization of payment and collection processes 6. Optimization of reconsolidating processes 7. Lending 8. FM/FX 9. Retail banking 10. Working Capital Services (Supply Chain Finance / Receivables Finance 11. Trade Finance Solutions •Made a seamless transition from various banking departments •Managing teams of professionals and team managers of different departments •2 decades of experience in US and European banking •Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, & PowerPoint) Dutch, English, German and French
Regional Head of ING Transaction Services in the Americas ● Develop an on the ground presence of Transaction Services for ING Bank in the Americas, building a layered team with product specialist and steadily growing income with double digits over a 5 year plus period ● Management member of the Americas Management Team and the Global Transaction Services Management Team and representing Transaction Services in Commercial GreenLight comities, ensuring to capture cross-buy opportunities ● Representing ING within the Americas region and frequently being published or invited as speaker for sector relevant conferences or literature such as the Treasury Association New York (TMANY), Center for Finance Professionals (CEFRO), Payments USA, American Association of Finance professionals (AFP) and Bankers Association for Foreign Trade (BAFT). Next to this, Advisory Board member of the CeFro and Board Member of the BAFT
US-based, Corporate Banking professional with robust Transaction Services and Origination skills, advising clients how to optimize their European banking landscape. Acting as a Relationship Manager for US-based Corporate Clients with operations in Europe. Broad experience in the US and European Corporate Markets with extensive Client Coverage record and engagement at the CFO/Senior Treasurer level, having successfully delivered market-changing mandates in the Corporate Finance Advisory.
ING Bank is a Dutch multinational bank headquartered in Amsterdam. Its primary businesses are retail banking, direct banking, commercial banking and investment banking with an annual turnover of EUR 43 billion and 65.000 employees worldwide. The bank was established by the Dutch government in 1881 and grew to its present form through national and international mergers and acquisitions into one of Europe’s leading banks. Responsibilities are: •Commercially responsible for all transaction banking (payments and cash management, cash concentration/pooling, cash collection-physical, cards acquiring etc., Trade Finance solutions) related services for US based corporates •To advise and consult US based corporates on the European transactional banking landscape covering 28 countries/ clearing houses with country specific payment and collection methods •Manage local in-country colleagues during commercial pitches and strategic client analyses •Key SEPA advisor, ensuring that corporates are compliant before the SEPA deadline and take the maximum benefit of the new legislation •Advising companies to optimize internal processes and compliancy regulation in the accounts payable/ accounts receivable process •Advising clients in the movement of goods secured by documentary trade solutions •Ensuring the most efficient way for multinationals to reconcile transactions throughout different banking partners, IT systems and country specific formats •Developing relationships with US based corporates clients on a transactional banking perspective.
A Senior Payments and Cash management Consultant/ Junior Regional Manager US Corporates is part of the Commercial Banking division of ING. Responsibilities are: •Commercially responsible for all transaction banking (payments and cash management, cash concentration/pooling, cash collection -physical, cards acquiring etc.) related services for US based corporates •To advise and consult US based corporates about the European transactional banking landscape in the 28 countries/ clearing houses with country specific payment and collection methods •Key SEPA advisor, ensuring that corporates are compliant before the SEPA deadline and take the maximum benefit of the new legislation •Advising companies to optimize internal processes and compliancy regulation in the accounts payable/ accounts receivable process •Ensuring the most efficient way for multinationals to reconcile transactions throughout different banking partners, IT landscape and country specific formats •Developing relationships with US based corporates clients on a transactional banking perspective.
ING Bank N.V. has 230 branches in the Netherlands, serving retail, Small Medium Enterprises (SME), preferred banking and private banking clients in a region. Responsibilities of a branch director/ principle relationship manager are: •Managing two branches with various departments: private banking, personal banking, mortgages, clients advise, SME relationship management. •Setting regional commercial goals and ambitions and determining strategic goals •Coaching team leaders of different departments •Managing a small portfolio with private banking and large SME clients Product coverage: all retail banking products, investment management, lending, payments and cash management, interest management, FM, mortgages
As the leading retail bank in the Netherlands, ING currently services more than 800.000 SME enterprises in the Netherlands. Responsibilities of a Relationship Manager SME are: •Managing an portfolio of approximately 120 SME clients •Responsible for commercial goals determined by regional management Product coverage: lending, payments and cash management
ING hires on a yearly basis approximately 80-100 graduates from different colleges and offers them a two year training program. During this period the trainee is granted the chance to work on 6 different departments and follow matching courses.