Consultants
Ron Markus
Treasury Management & Market Outlook
From its inception in 1979 Ron Markus has been one of the pillars of ICC. Over the years he has come into contact with a great many financial managers within the Dutch corporate sector whom he has introduced to ICC's services and provided with concrete advice on relevant interest and currency issues. Knowing the Dutch entrepreneurial mentality and culture like no other, Ron is eminently suited to translating the market outlook as distilled by ICC analysts into a concrete interest and currency policy for our clients. On a daily basis our customers actively benefit from Ron's pragmatic and lucid explanation of the various scenarios in the financial markets. His interpretation forms a bridge between ICC's market outlook and the (product-oriented) intrinsic and more technical treasury management advice that we provide. As such it is a crucial element of ICC's services.
Jan van den Hoek
Senior consultant
After obtaining a degree in business administration (specialising in financial-economic management) from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Jan entered the financial world as an investment analyst in 1997. A year later he switched to derivatives trading. Until 2004 Jan traded on numerous European exchanges on behalf of various options companies in Amsterdam. From 2004 until he joined ICC, Jan held the position of sales manager for a firm developing stock-exchange software.
The extensive practical experience Jan gained during his career as a derivatives trader within the various organisations stands him in excellent stead as an ICC consultant.
Susan Stanworth
Senior consultant
Susan started her banking career in 1991 at Swiss Bank Investments Corporation (Amsterdam), where she advised her institutional investors on the purchase and sale of primarily German and Dutch bonds. In 1994, she switched to NIB Strating Effecten where she had final responsibility for advising a large number of institutional investors. A year later Susan moved to Deutsche Bank in Amsterdam, advising professional investors such as De Nederlandsche Bank and ING Investment Management on their choice of bonds and interest rate derivatives. In 1997 she decided to go and work for Deutsche Bank in New Zealand, offering support to fund managers, asset managers, and other institutional professionals in the formulation and execution of a strategy for their fixed-income securities portfolio. Subsequently she spent two years as a consultant at IBEX Tradercard in New Zealand (a New Zealand bartering organisation) before returning to the Netherlands in 2001 to join ING Bank Amsterdam as treasury products advisor. In this position she advised her relations (mostly in the public, property, healthcare, and leisure sectors) on their product choice for managing currency and interest-rate risks, providing analyses of the interest-rate risks within existing credit portfolios.
Finally, in 2007 Susan joined ICC as treasury consultant. The extensive work experience she has built up throughout her career as a treasury consultant for medium-sized and large organisations is indispensable to her work at ICC. As treasury consultant, Susan contributes greatly to relationship management while offering our clients strategic and operational advice on interest and currency management.
Ron Albregt
Consultant
In 1989, after embarking on his banking career at (then) Amro Bank via Rabobank and Postbank (in combination with NMB and Nationale Nederlanden, respectively), Ron started working for ING Financial Markets. Two years earlier, in 1987, he had graduated in Dutch Law at the University of Leiden. At the ING Financial Markets department he advised companies quoted on the stock exchange as well as mid corporate clients on interest rate and currency risk management. After a career spanning more than 20 years he left ING, taking the opportunity to extend his horizons and realize his ambition to sit on the “opposite” side of the table.
In September 2009 Ron started work for ICC. The wealth of his experience in treasury management is a great addition to ICC’s in-house expertise in this area.
Colinda Hogervorst
Senior consultant
Colinda started her financial career in 1997 as cash management executive at Philips Corporate Treasury, where she was responsible for worldwide intercompany netting. In addition she was part of the team that ran the Cash Management Department for Philips’s European branches. In 1999, after graduating in (financial) business economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam she joined BCComponents (a division of Philips Passive Components) as Group Cash Manager. She actively contributed to setting up the Treasury department (specifically cash flow forecasting, daily liquidity management, monthly reports, and registering processes & procedures). In 2001 she switched to treasury consultancy by setting up the Corporate Treasury Consultancy specialisation at Getronics Consulting Finance. As senior consultant she executed projects for the Treasury departments of companies such as FEI Electron Optics, Ahold, Rockwool Benelux, and Heijmans.
Colinda's pragmatic, project-oriented approach to cash management issues and her corporate experience are an excellent addition to ICC's services portfolio. In close consultation with her colleagues at Treasury Management and Corporate & Structured Finance she will provide you with comprehensive advice on the organisation and optimisation of your Treasury department.
Jeroen Willems
Senior relationship manager & consultant
After graduating in technical business administration and international business (specialising in international financial management) from Maastricht University in the Netherlands as well as Emory University in Atlanta, USA, from 1999 Jeroen built up extensive banking experience at ING, among others as Senior then Principal Account Manager Mid-Corporates. In these positions he advised managing directors and financial directors of Mid-Corporate relations on the (re)structuring and implementation of financing, MBO/MBI/LBOs, cash and treasury management and other financial affairs. He was also Account Managers’ Team Leader.
At ICC, Jeroen uses his background and broad practical experience in corporate banking and finance to find resourceful and well-founded solutions for complex financial problems based on an integrated approach to corporate finance, treasury and cash management as well as bank relationship management. Jeroen is also our clients' contact person when it comes to setting up and coordinating consultancy projects that require the deployment of several specialists in order to achieve an optimal total solution.
Joost Clijsen
Senior Consultant
Having graduated in business economics from the University of Tilburg in 1997 Joost joined the Rabobank Groep where he gained extensive experience in business/corporate financing.
After completing the trainee course Joost worked as Business Market Account Manager for several years, with a focus on customer-oriented financing solutions and banking services in the broadest sense. During his last few years at Rabo as Special Management Account Manager, Joost was responsible for developing and managing restructuring and turnaround projects for companies that had run into difficulties.
Mid-2007 Joost became Corporate & Structured Finance Consultant at ICC where his competencies are an excellent complement to ICC's core financing expertise. His implements a decisively practical and solution-oriented approach to financing problems of whatever nature, and deploys his knowledge and experience to achieve maximum results for his clients.
Ruud van Dijck
Consultant
After obtaining a degree in financial service management, Ruud gained banking experience at ING Bank where he worked in the Mid-Corporate department advising DGAs and financial directors on financing and other banking services.
Halfway through 2006 Ruud moved to ICC where his remit is to further expand and develop the Corporate & Structured Finance consultancy.
Paul-Martijn de Leeuw
Consultant
After completing his studies in International Management (2000) and Master of Finance (2006), Paul-Martijn gained extensive banking experience while working for various financial institutions. As an Account Manager at ING Bank he acquired wide-ranging knowledge of commercial/corporate financing. In addition, he was employed as an Analyst and Relation Manager in the commercial and corporate segments of ABN Amro and Rabobank. Here he advised directors with a majority shareholding and financial directors of corporate clients on the (re)structuring and implementation of financing, MBO/MBI/LBOs, and other financial matters.
At the end of 2009 Paul-Martijn joined ICC, where he is involved in expanding and shaping the Corporate Finance Consultancy department. His background and broad practical knowledge in the area of general Corporate Banking & Finance, and specifically in asset-based lending translate into creative and well-founded solutions for complex financial problems.