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.

Tanja Kramer

Head of Mergers and Acquisitions KPN

Tanja Kramer is responsible for the Mergers & Acquisitions department of KPN, heading a team of 5 M&A professionals. Started her career as consultant developing 3D-simulation models and worked eight years at ABN AMRO (RBS) in the Corporate Finance team thereafter. Tanja earned her Master of Science Econometrics at the University of Amsterdam and her International MBA at University Nyenrode in Breukelen.

Christiane van der Wateren

M&A Lead for Finance at Philips

Christiane has 20 years of relevant expertise in Financial Controlling, Business Modeling and Value Creation, Problem Solving, Planning & Analysis and M&A. She worked and lived in Germany, Singapore and The Netherlands.

Since 2015, Christiane is working as Finance Lead of the Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestments department in Philips. She oversees Financial Due Diligence and DD Vendor Engagement, the Finance Integration/Carve-out Strategy and finance related integration/disentanglement activities. She also is responsible for M&A Budget Control and Post Integration Performance Reporting. Through her role, she was involved in the IPO divestment of Philips’ Lighting division in 2016 and in more than 20 acquisition projects that Philips had worked on over the past 4 years.

Christiane holds a degree as Executive Master of Finance & Control (University of Maastricht) and a Diploma in Business Administration (University of Hamburg, Diplom-Kauffrau). She is Lean Six Sigma certified (Black Belt).

Richard Witvliet

Lawyer and counsel at Houthoff

Richard is a lawyer in the Corporate / M&A practice area of Houthoff. He was awarded ‘Best Young M&A Lawyer’ in 2018. He focuses on M&A transactions, assisting both corporate and private equity clients. Having obtained a business degree from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Richard advises clients using an interdisciplinary approach to law and financial economics. He is known for his hands-on commercial approach. From 2016 to 2017, Richard was seconded to Herbert Smith Freehills in London. Richard is based in both the Amsterdam and London offices of Houthoff.

Petra Zijp

Managing Partner and Head of Capital Markets Practice NautaDutilh N.V.

Petra Zijp, graduated from Amsterdam University in 1992 (English and Italian) and in 1994 (Law) and joined NautaDutilh in 1995. In
1999 and 2000 she was based in the London office, after which she returned to the Amsterdam office at the beginning of 2001. She became a partner of NautaDutilh in 2002. At present, she is managing partner of the firm and leads NautaDutilh’s Capital Markets Group. She has acted as special Dutch counsel to companies, underwriters and investors in a variety of public and private equity and debt offerings and listings on Euronext Amsterdam and abroad (New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq National Market) of both Dutch and foreign stock. Recent highlights in which she had a leading role include: the IPO of NIBC; Basic Fit; Alfen; Sif Offshore Foundations; Argenx; Athene; Trivago; Coca Cola; ForFarmers and the rights issue Delta Loyd.

Petra has been identified as a highly recommended Equity Capital Markets practitioner in the Netherlands in the Practical Law Company’s Yearbook. She is also recommended in the Legal 500 Series for Capital Markets and named by the International Financial Law Review 1000 as one of the world’s leading lawyers in the Equity Capital Markets. She was active as co-chair of the Capital Markets Forum of the International Bar Association and is a member of the Dutch Association of Securities Law (Vereniging voor Effectenrecht). Petra was regularly nominated (in 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2019) for the European Women in Business Law Awards Capital Markets, in the categories Debt and Equity.

Mels Huige

Partner at Active Capital Company

Mels Huige is Partner at Active Capital Company. He has extensive experience in guiding merger & acquisitions projects and structuring acquisitions and valuing companies. Mels is responsible for acquiring new shareholdings within Active Capital Company, add-ons and exits. Besides that is responsible for investor relations.

Previously he worked as Director at Boer & Croon Corporate Finance. Within Boer & Croon Corporate Finance Mels focussed on merger and acquisition processes within the Transport & Logistics and Industry & Trade sectors. Besides that, Mels has experience with suppliers of the maritime oil and gas industries. Mels holds a Master´s degree in business economics from Maastricht University and a postgraduate degree in Business Valuation from the Rotterdam School of Management.

Terry Verheij

Partner at Voxius

Voxius is a specialist firm working in Legal and/or Compliance, to help with executive search, providing interim solutions and legal strategy & operations consluting. Former M&A lawyer at Houthoff.

Eric Wijs

Managing Director and Head of Benelux at Lincoln International

Eric spearheads business development and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for Lincoln International in the Benelux, a region where the private equity industry continues to develop and is increasingly considered as one of the most attractive asset classes.

Eric has more than 25 years of experience advising clients on M&A, public take-overs, divestitures, capital raisings, public offerings, leveraged buyouts, privatizations and restructurings. His clients sit across numerous geographies and include large public companies, privately held companies, private equity investors and government entities.

Prior to founding Lincoln’s Amsterdam office, Eric was a Managing Director within the financial advisory practice at Lazard, helping to establish its Amsterdam office, and also worked in the firm’s London and Paris offices. He started his career with ING Bank and transferred to London following the acquisition of Baring Brothers & Co where he worked prior to moving to Lazard’s London office.

Eric graduated in Business Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam and holds a CEMS Master degree.

Myrthe van Bijsterveld

Director F&A Corporate Finance / Sector Banking at Rabobank

Myrthe van Bijsterveld is a Director in the Corporate Finance F&A origination team of Rabobank, responsible for driving the strategic dialogue with the Tier 1 F&A clients. She was awarded ‘Best Young M&A Advisor’ in 2018. Before joining the Corporate Finance team, she worked on numerous transactions within Leveraged Finance. Myrthe holds a Master’s degree in International Business from Maastricht University.

Kevin Beukeveld

Lawyer Corporate/M&A at Lexence

Kevin Beukeveld is a mergers and acquisitions specialist. He advises companies and private equity firms, whether Dutch or international, on mergers and acquisitions and is particularly active in the Dutch mid-market.
Kevin founded and chairs the the Young M&A Community, a platform for M&A, corporate finance and private equity professionals aged 35 and under. Kevin was nominated for ”Best Young M&A Lawyer” in 2018.

Kevin studied law at Universiteit van Amsterdam and during that period spent a semester at University of Cape Town in South Africa. He also received a European master’s degree in Law & Economics, for which he studied successively at Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, Università di Bologna and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (Mumbai). He also completed the postgraduate specialization course in mergers and acquisitions at Grotius Academie.

Pieter Bautz

Managing Director and Head of Structured Acquisition Finance Netherlands at ING

Pieter is responsible for ING’s leveraged finance activities in the Netherlands. He leads a team of 17 professionals focusing on the Dutch market and larger, capital markets driven transactions in Belgium.

Pieter has close to 15 years of experience in financing LBO’s, public-to-private transactions and recapitalizations across the whole spectrum supporting leading (international) private equity firms. He is a member of the Structured Acquisition Finance global management team as well the management team of Wholesale Banking Netherlands.

Pieter holds a Master’s degree in Finance from University of Groningen.

Eric Wijs

Managing Director and Head of Benelux at Lincoln International

Eric spearheads business development and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity for Lincoln International in the Benelux, a region where the private equity industry continues to develop and is increasingly considered as one of the most attractive asset classes.

Eric has more than 25 years of experience advising clients on M&A, public take-overs, divestitures, capital raisings, public offerings, leveraged buyouts, privatizations and restructurings. His clients sit across numerous geographies and include large public companies, privately held companies, private equity investors and government entities.

Prior to founding Lincoln’s Amsterdam office, Eric was a Managing Director within the financial advisory practice at Lazard, helping to establish its Amsterdam office, and also worked in the firm’s London and Paris offices. He started his career with ING Bank and transferred to London following the acquisition of Baring Brothers & Co where he worked prior to moving to Lazard’s London office.

Eric graduated in Business Administration from Erasmus University Rotterdam and holds a CEMS Master degree.

Myrthe van Bijsterveld

Director F&A Corporate Finance / Sector Banking at Rabobank