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Partners
Eelko Bronkhorst joined Financial Access as Partner in 2009, with special focus on the firm's Advisory Services. He has extensive experience in international finance, management and building businesses in the financial sector. He has worked in various commercial and senior executive roles for ABN-AMRO Bank in The United States, Asia and Europe, including Country Head for ABN-AMRO in Korea, where he successfully transformed the bank during Asia’s financial crisis in the late 1990’s. In 2001 Mr Bronkhorst became Regional Head for ABN-AMRO’s energy finance business in Asia and the Middle East and from 2004 to 2006 Mr. Bronkhorst served as CEO of ABN-AMRO Bank (Switzerland) and as Regional Head of Private Banking for Emerging Markets. In 2007 Mr. Bronkhorst became the CEO of Orangefield Trust, formerly ING Trust, in a management buy-out. Mr. Bronkhorst holds a Masters of Law Degree from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and has successfully completed the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD, France. Jan Cherim is co-founder and Managing Partner of Financial Access, with involvement in all of the firm's business areas (Advisory, Private Equity, Structured Finance). He has been active as an investment and commercial banker for more than 20 years, based in London, Amsterdam, and the Far East. An emerging markets specialist, he has served clients in all regions but has deep first-hand expertise in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean. Mr Cherim was a Management Committee member of ING’s Wholesale International unit, Country Manager in Thailand, Regional Manager for Africa, and Global Head of products & services for Financial Institutions. He also launched ING’s first institutional emerging markets debt fund, and developed private equity and asset management ventures in Poland, China and Thailand. He serves now as a Director in two SEAF PE funds. Mr Cherim restructured ING’s specialised financial sector advisory practice for emerging markets in 1998. Prior to joining ING in 1990, Mr Cherim worked at S.G. Warburg & Co. in London (now UBS Investment Banking) and the World Bank in Washington. He has been a Director or Board adviser to banks in Russia, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan and Qatar. Mr Cherim was educated at the Johns Hopkins University (USA) and the London School of Economics. Peter van der Krogt, a Founding Partner in Financial Access, responsible particularly for the Banking Advisory and SME Finance areas. He began his career at the Dutch Ministry of Finance, where he was stationed in Washington as Assistant to the (Dutch) Executive Director at the World Bank and IFC. Joining ING Bank in 1989, he developed multilateral institution relationships and co-financings and subsequently worked extensively in ING’s international network, managing corporate financing activities in Manila and Moscow. In 1999, Mr van der Krogt moved to Jakarta and managed what was then the largest single financial sector advisory engagement in ING’s history at Lippo Bank. He returned to Amsterdam in 2002 as Head of the Financial Institutions advisory business, succeeding Mr Cherim. Mr van der Krogt has worldwide experience and particular regional knowledge of Eastern Europe and the Far East. He was educated in Public Finance and Law at the University of Leiden (the Netherlands).
Representatives
Tom Lind joined Financial Access as Associate Partner in October 2010. He is based in Dubai and will focus on building our advisory business in the Middle East. Mr. Lind has wide experience in international commercial banking, investment banking and risk management. During his 23-year career Mr Lind has specialised in structured finance, M&A advisory, debt and equity capital markets and capital re-structuring. He has a wealth of experience whilst leading numerous landmark transactions in various sectors, including financial institutions, petrochemicals, telecom and media, power generation, natural resources, transport and infrastructure, including the award winning Yansab, Shoaiba IWPP and al Waha transactions. At ABN-AMRO Bank Mr. Lind has held senior management positions in Amsterdam, Turkey, Bahrain, Poland, Greece and Saudi Arabia (Saudi Hollandi Bank). He was supervisory board member of ABN-AMRO's subsidiaries in Kazakhstan and Poland and a member of the Bank’s Central Credit Committee. Mr. Lind headed Saudi Hollandi Bank’s (AA affiliate) investment banking and structured finance business and was the designated CEO of the investment banking entity and a member the Bank’s engagement and underwriting committees. In 2007 Mr. Lind joined Arab Bank to lead the bank’s investment banking business for the GCC in Dubai. Tom holds a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam.
Associate Partners
Francis Condon is an Associate Partner of Financial Access, and was formerly Vice President, Sustainability, at ABN-AMRO Bank’s public affairs and risk management divisions in Amsterdam. In his public affairs role he was responsible for managing a team integrating and coordinating sustainability strategy across business units. He also chaired the ‘new technologies’ working group and co-chaired the WBCSD ‘climate change adaptation’ initiative in his position as a climate change specialist. Francis’s role in risk management comprised the development and implementation of ABN AMRO’s approach to environmental and social risk management. This included designing sector-wide policies, undertaking client and transaction assessments and overseeing risk advisory in business engagements across all industry sectors. Francis was a co-author of the revised Equator Principles and leader in assessing environmental & social on a number of significant projects financed by the bank. Prior to becoming a sustainability expert, Francis was an equity analyst active in basic industry sectors on both the sell-side and the buy-side of the investment management industry. Francis has a BSc. (Hons) and an M.Phil in Mining Engineering.
James France is Associate Partner at Financial Access responsible for Structured Finance, the firm’s capital markets advisory and receivables finance businesses. He has 25 years of experience in the areas of structured finance, securitisation, mortgage finance, and financial sector consulting. Jim has been Director and Co-Head of the Asian Asset Finance Group at Credit Suisse First Boston in Hong Kong and Tokyo, Director and Head of the Asian Structured Finance Group at ING Barings in Hong Kong, and Director and Head of Asset Securitisation at BZW in London. He also has been an Associate in the mortgage and asset securitisation groups at Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers in New York. Jim has transacted over 30 major structured finance transactions globally. These transactions have involved the securitisation of mortgage loans, auto loans and hire purchase contracts, personal loans, credit card receivables, lease receivables, and trade receivables. He has also established three multi-seller, multi-asset, multi-currency asset-backed commercial paper funding vehicles, including the first to accommodate assets from Southeast Asia. He structured and executed the Thai Cars transaction, which was the first offshore asset securitisation completed in Thailand. In addition to his investment banking experience, Jim has advised on the establishment of mortgage funding vehicles in Korea, South Africa, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Botswana, and Mongolia. Jim has an MBA from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University.
Peter Kievit is involved in the investment management activities of Financial Access. Peter has experience in the banking and securities industry, stretching over 20 years, with ABN AMRO and ING, based in Amsterdam, London and Sao Paulo. He has specialised in emerging capital markets, financial institutions, asset management, securities operations and finance. He started his career in high grade capital markets and IPO’s, and switched to emerging markets in 1992. He successfully set up the Eurobond business for ING in Brazil and subsequently headed emerging markets new issues in London, where he focused on Eastern Europe and local currency markets. After his return to ABN AMRO, he was responsible for debt origination in Latin America and the Middle East/Africa, became COO of the bank’s dealing room and MT member of one of the Wholesale Client Divisions. Since 2005 he has worked with an emerging markets L/S hedge fund (GDM) focusing on CEE & CIS, managed a few personal venture capital investments and provided several advisory and interim services in the banking and asset management sector. He has a MSc in Econometrics and in Business Economics, and an EMSc in Finance & Control, from the University of Amsterdam.
Marc Leipoldt is a Risk Management specialist, with a particular expertise in Operational Risk. He held Risk functions within ABN-AMRO Bank for seven years. Amongst others, he developed and implemented a global inspection programme for the bank, focusing on Operational Risk Management and Enterprise Risk Management, and was member of the Management Team of Risk Advisory Services (RAS) within Group Risk Management for ORM, where he provided advice to other banks on Risk Management. He was also responsible for the development of the Global Operational Risk Management programmes for ABN AMRO. Mr. Leipoldt has profound knowledge of Management Information Systems and Project Management, and is a regular adviser to Central Banks and regulatory agencies, as well as conference speaker on issues associated with ORM and Basel II compliance
Patrick Mulders is a leading Retail Marketing Expert. He started his career as a Management Trainee at ING Bank, and has developed extensive experience in the area of Retail and SME marketing, including a 2-year period in the e-commerce department, where he was instrumental in the development and marketing of their online "financial shop," including insurance, mutual funds and mortgage financing products. Mr. Mulders is also well-versed in all aspects of online and virtual distribution of products. He is a specialist in Advertisement and Product Development, having headed the Postbank's marketing Department. Mr. Mulders has been involved in advisory roles for banks in Nigeria, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Ukraine.
Michiel Schwartz is Partner in charge of the firm's Private Equity business. Michiel has spent most of his international career with ABN AMRO, where he started in 1984. He has held various senior positions in both general management and investment banking, and in particular gained a broad experience in managing and restructuring bank businesses in difficult markets. From 1999 to 2002 he served as Country Manager for the Bank in Moscow, where he successfully restructured the business after the Russian crisis. Previously, he worked in Brazil, the U.A.E., Chicago and Tokyo in various managerial roles covering structured finance, corporate banking and treasury risk management. After his assignment in Russia, he became Global Head of Leveraged Finance, based out of London, and, subsequently Head of Credit Markets for Asia Pacific, based out of Singapore. Since 2006, he has worked in private equity, including projects in India and in Eastern Europe. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Nijenrode (the Netherlands) and an MBA from the University of Georgia (USA).
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