Profile summary
Seasoned account management and development professional with international business acumen. Analytical and strategic thinking, with a drive for innovation and result. Clearly communicating team leader/builder/player.
Interim management/freelance objective
In line with my former professional activities as Management Team Member - Senior Account Manager/Underwriter and my current studies, I’m looking for (international) projects in the (financial) services industry w.r.t. Account Management, Underwriting or Risk Management.
Professional experience
Independent Adviser 2017
Project based assignments.
Durst Graphic Systems Sales EMEA 2016
Startup of the sales administration in the newly created Benelux subsidiary (since 01.01.2016) for Durst Phototechnik digital inkjet printer systems.
Reinsurance Broking 2003 - 2014
2009 – 2014: Management Team Member - Senior Account Manager at Aon Benfield Brussels & Amsterdam: Benelux reinsurance broking: client relationship management and client servicing, prospection and business development, data and risk analysis, structuring (based on modeling & simulation), quotation, drafting of wordings, consulting, negotiation of terms and conditions and placement of life and non-life reinsurance treaties. These broking activities are performed by several client teams of variable composition involving 3-6 persons with different competencies (administration, actuarial, modeling, wording, specialty, …) under the coordination and final responsibility of the Senior Account Manager. Management responsibility for Belux client relationships, business development and (pro)active market initiatives.
2006 – 2009: Team Member at Benfield Ltd. Brussels: Benelux reinsurance broking (see description above).
2003 – 2006: Senior Account Manager at Aon Re Belgium: Belgian reinsurance broking (see description above).
Reinsurance Underwriting 1995 - 2003
2000 – 2003: Underwriting Account Executive at Secura Belgian Re: French property and casualty (P&C) treaty underwriting: French market client/broker relationship management and servicing, prospection and business development, data and risk analysis, structuring (based on modeling & simulation), quotation, reviewing/issuing of wordings, negotiation of terms and conditions and writing of non-life reinsurance treaties according to the underwriting guidelines/policy.
1998 – 2000: Director Marketing and Underwriting at American Re Brussels: Benelux and Nordics P&C treaty underwriting (see description above).
1995 – 1997: Treaty underwriting at Great Lakes Re Brussels. Assistant to the Continental European P&C Treaty Underwriter.
ICT/Financial Analysis/Logistics 1988 - 1994
1990 – 1994: Financial Analyst at Great Lakes Re Brussels: Assistant to the CFO, migration to, operation of and reporting with the SICS reinsurance software.
1989 – 1990: Financial Analyst at DJ Telerate: Reporting to the Benelux CFO, accountant for the Luxembourg operations and analytic accounting initialization.
1988 – 1989: Assistant Logistics at BASF Belgium. Preparation of ad hoc reports and statistics, follow-up & settlement of selected cases with the HO logistics.
Education
Febelfin Academy 2016 - 2017
Professional Certificate in Risk Management. Business case: Freja Food Company Valuation.
UCL Louvain-la-Neuve 1987 - 1989
M.B.A., subject Finance, at the Université catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve (cum laude). Final paper: Financial analysis of the modernization
investment at De Globe foundry in Holland.
VLEKHO Brussels 1983 - 1987
Degree in Commercial and Consular Sciences, subject International Business, at the Vlaamse Economische Hogeschool in Brussels (cum laude).
Final paper: Olive oil: a European problem.
Language and software skills - Other interests
Languages: Dutch: mother tongue, French and English: proficient. German: good command. Spanish: basic level.
Software: MS Outlook and MS Office, ************, SICS (reinsurance accounting and administration software).
Sports: running, skiing. Culture: Local president of a culture society.
