Philip is responsible for commercial matters, ie. business development, sales, fundraising and building partnerships and co-operations in the FinTech and alternative finance space across Europe. His expertise includes investor relations and regulatory matters. He has experience in sourcing fixed income mandates jointly developed with many types of (online) lenders. He has successfully acquired institutional investment mandates and built innovative strategic partnerships with small and large financial institutions. Philip is also very well connected with the European FinTech ecosystem. Philip completed Masters in Law and in Finance at the University of Groningen and Duisenberg School of Finance (University of Amsterdam), respectively. Philip is a frequent speaker at industry events in the lending and FinTech space.✦

As Chief Financial Technology Officer, Jetze is responsible for all data and quantitative related matters, including financial modelling. His key expertise is predictive modelling and machine learning. Jetze holds a degree on in Mathematical Physics from the University of Groningen and has worked in various roles necessary for a data scientist: from software engineer, creating among others, algorithmic trading software to developing machine learning algorithms. Furthermore Jetze consults for the hedge fund industry and manages @ukfactcheckpolitics, one of the largest fact checkers in the UK ✦

Povilas is responsible of deal flow and keeping track of the due-diligence processes. His key expertise is in Corporate Finance. Povilas previously held internships in the Baltic Private Equity and Dept Capital Markets sectors. Next to working at A-DCM, Povilas currently studies for his MSc in Corporate Finance at the University of Amsterdam and holds a degree in Economics from Tilburg University (We hope to welcome back Povilas on a short term basis). ✦

Jan has 40+ years of experience in the institution nal sector working for ABN AMRO Bank, Swiss Banking Corp., Columbia Threadneedle, AEGON Asset Management and Vontobel Asset Management. AT Aegon, Jan was responsible for European Institutional Sales. As owner of Porterville he currently offers distribution and advisory services to a limited amount of successful private equity, real estate- and investment management companies. He also acts as an advisor- and investor to Chipshol Family Office. Jan holds a Masters Degree in Macro Economics at the University of Saint Gall, Switzerland.✦

Innovative, agile and multi-award winning banking leader with over 25 years’ international financial services experience with leading blue-chip institutions across three continents in progressive leadership roles, both executive and NED, in Digital Banking/Fintech, Investment Banking, Wealth Management, general management, business development and strategy. Industry recognised as a pioneer enabling challenger banks to establish strategic partnerships with FinTechs to create profitable financial products using an ‘open architecture model.✦

George has significant international IB and credit experience. He has been in charge of the establishment of several leading lenders, from start-up to fully functional lenders, spanning North America and Europe having held an array of international executive positions including Operations Director and MD for Preferred Mortgages (Barclays MBO). George has also held executive level positions at Lehman Brothers, IMC Mortgage Company and Washington Mutual. Through his experience and an extensive network of contacts in the broker and banking community, George offers up-to-the-minute knowledge of lending sector. ✦