Ruth Post (Chair) is Director Privacy & Compliance LeasePlan Corporation. LeasePlan is a leader in two large and growing markets: Car-as-a-Service for new cars, through its LeasePlan business, and the high-quality three-to-four-year-old used car market, through its CarNext.com business. LeasePlan has more than 1.9 million vehicles under management in over 30 countries, and holds a banking licence. With over 50 years’ experience, LeasePlan’s mission is to provide what’s next in sustainable mobility so our customers can focus on what’s next for them.

For ten years Ruth worked at the Dutch Central Bank in different roles related to compliance, integrity & supervision, after which she was responsible for Compliance both at ABP and APG.

Ruth holds a law degree and studied public administration.

Owen Strijland (Co-Chair) started his career in 1999 as a general ICT consultant in the Healthcare and Finance domain, through his roles as a Change Advisor to the Executive Board for a large insurance/ banking company and his role as manager Risk Management he came in contact with a variety of Compliance and Risk topics where Information Management, digitization and the Delivery of tangible results were always key. For a global consultancy company, he has built a team of 40 risk professionals. His experience and motivation to analyze opportunities, start up, create and sell solutions, positively influences the group process to perform and get the best out of people. Today Owen is responsible for the Fintech industry solutions for Protiviti Benelux and is manager of the Digital Delivery Hub. His focus is on Technology, GRC, ERM and Operational Risk with a strong focus on Financial Crime management, his general business development responsibility is to make available all Protiviti services to the Fintech and Financial Services / Digital innovative organizations.

Owen has a seat in the Dutch Management Team of Protiviti, and the Global Digital team. Partner management of; Holland Fintech and BusinessForensics.

Perry Huijgen (Secretary) is a Senior Risk & Compliance Consultant at Protiviti, based in Amsterdam, NL and holds a Master in Business Administration. Within his current role, Perry partners with management, board members and outside counsel to help organizations comply with regulatory requirements and respond to situations of noncompliance. Perry areas of expertise include KYC/AML Compliance, Fraud Prevention, Non-Financial Risk Management and PSD2. Perry is a big FinTech and RegTech enthusiast and likes to deploy new technologies and innovations when helping companies to become compliant.

As a consultant working on various disciplines within the Financial Economic Crime spectrum, Perry was missing a platform that connected the various dots. As such, Perry is looking forward to contributing to a community which adopts a holistic approach to Financial Economic Crime.

Lotte van Meerten (Co-Secretary) is the Compliance Officer for Van Lanschot Kempen Wealth Management based in Amsterdam, NL. Lotte has a Master in Investigative Criminology. Lotte has experience in building Anti-money laundering (AML) and Sanction programs, including defining policies, identifying risks, advisory, monitoring and training the operation. Additionally, Lotte is experienced in incident management and investigations.

Tames Rietdijk is the CEO @ BusinessForensics. His area of expertise lies with Financial Crime Risk Management, Forensic investigations and Data analytics. He is responsible for the design and development of the various BusinessForensics propositions applicable for the banking, investment and insurance industries. He emphasizes the importance of sustainability in banking and finance and all his work is focused on improving the levels of control through responsiveness and resilience.

Adriaan Kom (Treasurer & Communications Director) is the Chief Commercial Officer of Onguard a company in Visma. Adriaan has a background in Economics. He is fascinated by data and technology and how you can manage your business relations in a trustworthy and compliant way. He drives innovation and aims to connect compliance with business in a coherent and profitable way. Previously he was responsible for the Compliance Solutions at Dun & Bradstreet and advised corporates and financial institutions on data management, risk policies and compliance perspectives.