A Dutch national, born in 1961 in Amsterdam, married, proud father and Singapore Permanent resident. Arrived in 1988 in Jakarta, Indonesia from the Netherlands, working for a prominent Indonesian “Family Office”. He has been in Private Banking and Wealth Management (WM) since 1992. Commenced his career in WM at Lehman Brothers, Singapore and thereafter, Prudential-Bache, Singapore. In 2000, he co-founded KE Swan & Co Pte Ltd, a joint venture with a public listed company, Kim Eng Holdings which was successfully grown and sold to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Singapore (CBA) in 2005. He was recognized as one of the key men when Schroders