Marc van Gelder

Founder & CEO at Dennendonck Investments and former CEO of Mediq

Marc van Gelder is founder & CEO at Dennendonck Investments and former CEO of Mediq. Currently, he is Supervisory Director at Hans Anders and VastNed Retail and active as a non-executive director of the JP Morgan European Smaller Companies Trust PLC. He is also Supervisory Director at Action and MedEye. Marc is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Diabetes Fund and is also involved in the Paleis het Loo. 

Marc earned his Bachelor of Economics, Master of Finance at Erasmus University in Rotterdam and his MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. 

Koos Breen

Former CEO Van Leeuwen Buizen Groep, specializes in family and private equity owned businesses in the midmarket segment.

Koos Breen was President and CEO of Van Leeuwen Buizen Groep from 1998 until 2007. From 1978 to 1998 Koos worked at Philips Electronics. His positions included Managing Director East Asia and Managing Director Asia Pacific.

Currently he is Non-Executive Director at Teijin Aramid, Royal Smilde, Van Leeuwen Buizen Groep, BridgeHead, Black Bear Carbon, Well Engineering Partners. He is Member Investment Committee of the TBL Mirror Fund, a fund for High Growth Businesses in Africa.

He was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Royal Ahrend and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Muller Shipping. Koos also acted as Industry advisor for IK Invest.

Koos earned his Master of Science Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology and Bachelor Business Administration at Rotterdam University.

Volkert Doeksen

Vice Chairman Carlyle Solutions bij The Carlyle Group en Co-Founder AlpInvest

Volkert Doeksen is a private equity investor and founder of AlpInvest Partners (originally NIB Capital), one of the largest private equity investments managers globally with over €40 billion of assets under management. Doeksen received his M.A. in Law from Universiteit Leiden (The University of Leiden). He started his career as a financial analyst in corporate finance for Morgan Stanley International in London. From 1989 to 1992 he was an investment banker, focused on mergers and acquisitions, for Dillon Read. He then continued his career as director of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. At this bank he became the head of the Benelux region in London and head of private equity investments in New York. Today he is managing partner and Chief Executive Officer at AlpInvest Partners. He is also vice-chairman of the Carlyle Investment Solutions, where he focuses on major accounts of The Carlyle Group and on new products and business development. Additionally, Volkert is member of the Board of NXP Semiconductors in the Netherlands. He also serves on the Advisory Board of private equity firm Warburg Pincus.

Maurits Duynstee

Former Head of CF Benelux at Deutsche Bank and MD, Head Wholesale Banking NL, Global co-head CF at ING Bank. Maurits specializes in international and complex M&A transactions and public tenders of Exchange-listed Dutch companies. 

Maurits has a very broad corporate finance background in both equity capital markets and M&A Advisory and has been active as a corporate finance advisor for more than 20 years. Between 1993 and 2008, he was active at ABN AMRO, after which he transferred to ING Bank. Within ING Wholesale Banking, he was ultimately responsible for the international Corporate Finance platform and led the Corporate Clients departments and various product groups in the Netherlands. In 2009, 2013 and 2015, during the annual Alex van Groningen M&A Gala, Maurits was voted best M&A advisor in the Netherlands, and under his leadership, ING Corporate Finance was also voted best M&A House in the Netherlands. In 2018, Maurits was Managing Director, Head of Corporate Finance and Client Coverage Benelux at Deutsche Bank.

Maurits studied at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. 

Stewart McCrone

Head of Strategy, M&A and Partnerships at Philips

Stewart McCrone started his career in 1988 at Philips as financial controller and became CFO of Philips’ television sector in 2000. His positions included Head of Investor Relations, CFO of Philips Lightning, Head of M&A and he is Head of Strategy, M&A and Partnerships at Philips.

Stewart McCrone graduated from Edinburgh Napier University and the University of Sterling and went to Harvard Law School where he studied Negotiation & Leadership.  Stewart was awarded the honour of ‘Best M&A Team in the Netherlands’ in 2016 from the Dutch Private Equity and M&A Awards.

Ton van Veen

CFO and a member of the board of directors of  supermarket chain and family business Jumbo

Since 2004, Ton van Veen has been CFO and a member of the board of directors of supermarket chain and family business Jumbo. The Financieel Dagblad called him ‘the 900-million-euro man’. The nickname refers to his role in the rapid growth of the company through the acquisitions of Konmar (in part), Super de Boer and C1000. In addition, he played a leading role in the takeovers of La Place, EMTÉ and Smulweb by Jumbo and was closely involved, as President of the Supervisory Board of Prinsen Food Group, in the sale of that company to Bencis Capital Partners in 2016.  

Van Veen studied Business Economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Before becoming CFO at Jumbo, from 1997 to 2004 he held various management positions at Campina, including CFO of Campina Germany and Campina International. Between 1993 and 1997, he held various financial management positions at KPN. In addition to his role as Director at Jumbo, Van Veen is a member of the Supervisory Board of PSV and Rituals and is President of the Supervisory Board of the combined skating and cycling team Jumbo-Visma.