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WHAT'S NewS Issue 11 December 1997
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Our new colleaques (f.l.tr.): Uri Sky - New Vork, Irene Chong - Singapore, Doug Zylstra -
Chicago,Tony Lam - Hong Kong.Michael Wolff- Frankfurt,Andrea Giordano- Milan,
NancyTjahjono - Jakarta,Santiago Aranguren - Madrid,GladysVue- Hong Kong,
Yeo Woei Kuen, Singapore, Kevin King - New York, Fony Limengan - Jakarta, Anja Pater -
Utrecht, Bill Baird - San Francisco, Adam Johnson - London.Terrell Boyie - Atlanta,
Mare Sebag - Paris, Ron van den Brink - Rabobank Apeldoorn and Ed Smith - Edinburgh
(missing from the picture are Claudia Thiel from Hamburg and Frankfurt's Oliver Wolter).
Luxembourg is on
the move - and
apparently it is
about time too.
The original
building with its
near 100 staff was bursting at
the seams. 'Five years ago we
were with 28 employees,' says
operations manager Adrian
Whiteman, 'with an office to
suit. Now we've grown to
almost 100 and we were
crammed in like sardines.' The
new modern-look building was
designed by one of Europe's
leading bank architects and
reflects our customer focus
strategy, as 'number one
concern for the new building
Computer design of Luxem-
bourg's brand new premises.
was cliënt comfort and
customer service driven,'
confirms Whiteman.
Management would also like to
take their hat's off to staff who
have patiently endured the
difficult working conditions for
so long. Incidently,
Luxembourg's postal address
and general switchboard
numbers stay the same.
MONKEY BUSINESS
October's cliënt relationship
managers meeting saw 19 new
faces from around the network
coming to Utrecht for their
week long initiation.
Far from monkey business, the
member bank visit this time
was to Apeldoorn, where the
new recruits called on their
cliënt Apenheul, the monkey
zoo.
people
Brazil Erik Peek is stationed with
the APFT team in Brazil as senior
project manager.
Germany Valerie Schlegel has
been promoted head of European
equity warrants.The risk analysis
department has a new head in
Erik Struss. Jürgen Scharnowske
head of structured equities left
the bank.
Hong Kong new deputy general
manager and head ofcorporate
and commercial banking is
Johnson Fu. Daniël Chan has
been appointed senior manager
operations. Mark Cheng and
Rose Cho are appointed as
account managers in the
corporate banking department. In
the treasury department Ben
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Kong has been appointed as
senior dealer FX and Alvin Li as
head of fixed income and
derivatives. Private banking has
new colleagues in Anthony Ho as
investment manager and May
Wong as senior credit risk officer.
Former investment manager of
private banking Veronica Lim left
the bank as well as Dutch Desk
manager Jennifer Chan and
account manager Clarissa Wong.
New to Rabobank Investment
Management Ltd. is Philippe
Legrand as executive director.
Indonesia AdriTriwicahyojoined
the bank as manager accounting
and financial reporting.
The Netherlands Jeroen
Scheelbeek joined the bank as
senior account manager F&A. Ben
Huiskamp takes up the same
position. Before Ben was stationed
with the agri project finance team
in Singapore. Corporate finance has
been extended with Gilles
Boumeester as manager
structured finance and Sabina
Goertz as senior financial advisor
M&A. Maarten Garvelink and
Gonneke Heerkens are appointed
as advisors M&A. Engel Koolhaas
has been appointed with APFT.
Engel comes from the aerospace
and export finance team.The
media and telecom team has a new
colleague in Marjon Wind.soon to
be advisor. Claus Verbrugge, from
account management transport
and logistics,joined RIAS as senior
project officer. Pieter Zwart
rejoined the transport and logistics
team.after being for some time
working with the middle market
account management team.Ton
Elshof joined the international
trade finance team.Ton comes from
the middle market team. Coen
Weerkamp has been appointed
senior dealer FX and Derivatives.
Ronald Dirksen of structured
finance and Hanneke van Rhijn of
corporate banking left the bank.
Poland former operations manager
Piotr Czarnecki is now responsible
for the corporate banking
department. Andrzej Chuchla has
been appointed as new operations
manager.
Singapore In the treasury
department Alicia Cheng Oi Lai
has been appointed senior
corporate sales executive. Marcus
Lee has been appointed manager
within the structured finance
department.
UK Michele di Stefano has been
appointed head of global FX.
Within investment banking Mark
Blundell has been promoted head
of global financial institutions
relationship management. Ruut
Schalij has been promoted head of
european fixed income and
derivative trading. Ruut comes from
Utrecht branch where he was head
investment banking. Mark Zucker^
is investment banking's new head
of global credit management.
Laurence Bouniard is the new
associate director with fixed
income and Zara Pratley the credit
sales executive credit spread
trading. MTN's David Vander is the
new busines manager global short
term investment rate products and
Matthew Steiner assistant director
global equity derivatives product
development.EricVan de Peer has
been transferred from Antwerp to
London as associate director
structured trade finance.
Leon Hindle is the new lawyer in
the legal department.
Vietnam Wong Lai Han has been
appointed senior officer credit
administration.
USA In New York Jim Peers has
been appointed chief financial
officer. New chief operations officer
is Bill Padula.