Jozef De Mey (1943, Belgian)
Chairman

 

Jozef De Mey was born in 1943 and is a Belgian national. He holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Gent and graduated as Actuary at the University of Louvain. He started his career in 1967 at the Insurance Control Authorities of the Ministry of Economic Affairs. From 1969 until 1971 he worked at Kredietbank Belgium. In 1971 he joined John Hancock, a financial services provider, where he held various positions until he joined Fortis in 1990. At Fortis, Jozef De Mey served as general manager of Fortis International, CEO of Fortis AG, and was appointed member of the Executive Committee in September 2000, where he was responsible for the Belgian and international insurance activities. In 2007, he was appointed Chief Investment Officer within the Executive Committee. Jozef De Mey retired from Fortis in December 2007. He continued to hold a number of non-executive board memberships in Fortis operating companies. In February 2009, he became non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fortis.

Current memberships: Ageas, AG Insurance, Muang Thai Holding, Ageas Insurance Company (Asia), Taiping Life Insurance Company, Muang Thai Life Insurance Company, De Eik N.V., Credimo N.V., Credimo Holding N.V., Zinner N.V., Festival van Vlaanderen Gent.

   

Guy de Selliers de Moranville (1952, Belgian)
Vice Chairman

 

Guy de Selliers de Moranville was born in 1952 and is a Belgian national. He is a civil engineer and holds a Licence in Economics from the Louvain University in Belgium.

He started his career in 1977 at the World Bank, where he was responsible for Metals and Mining projects. From 1982 until 1990 he was Senior Vice President International Investment Banking at Lehman Brothers. From 1990 until 1997 he was Vice Chairman of the Credit Committee and member of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s (EBRD) Executive Committee. After this Guy de Selliers de Moranville was Chief Executive of MC-BBL Eastern Holdings, a Board member and Executive Chairman for Eastern Europe at Robert Fleming and Co. Ltd., Advisor to the European Commission and Co-Chairman of a task force mandated to develop a strategy to facilitate the implementation of energy projects of strategic interest in the context of the EU/Russia Energy Dialogue. Since 2003 Guy de Selliers de Moranville is Executive Chairman of Hatch Corporate Finance, founded in partnership with the Hatch Group.

Guy de Selliers de Moranville holds the following board memberships: Solvay, Advanced Metal Group and Wimm Bill Dann. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of Pamplona, and is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Partners in Hope. He was previously a member of the Fortis International Advisory Board.

   

Bart De Smet (1957, Belgian)
CEO

 

Bart De Smet was born in 1957 and is a Belgian national. He not only earned a degree in mathematical sciences from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), but also has diplomas in Actuarial Sciences and Managerial Sciences.

He began his career with Argenta in 1982. From 1985 to 1993, he served as Executive Vice President of the Life division at the Swiss insurance company Nationale Suisse.

In 1994, he joined ING Insurance Belgium, where he was a member of the Executive Committee, responsible for individual and group life insurance, health insurance & banking activities. Bart De Smet moved to Fortis in 1998, where he was a member of the management committee of Fortis AG and responsible for Fortis Employee Benefits.

In 2005, he took charge of the Broker Channel at Fortis Insurance Belgium, assuming the position of CEO of Fortis Insurance Belgium in 2007. In June 2009 he became CEO of Fortis, which was renamed Ageas following the general meetings of shareholders in April 2010. He has a specific responsibility for the Strategy & Development, Audit, Investor Relations, Communications and Corporate Secretariat departments.

Besides his responsibilities at Ageas, Bart De Smet is Chairman of Assuralia, a member of the Royal Association of Belgian Actuaries, a member of the Advisory Board to the Pensions Chair at the Catholic University of Louvain and a director of Credimo.

Frank Arts (1943, Belgian)

 

 

Frank Arts was born in 1943 and is a Belgian national. He holds a Licentiate in Commercial and Financial Sciences from the Sint-Agnatius Hogeschool in Antwerp.

He has a longstanding career in Banking starting in 1967 at Bank Financia in Antwerp. In 1982 he continued his career in the pharmaceutical industry when he became Investment Manager at Janssen Pharmaceutica in Beerse (Belgium). Since 2000 Frank Arts is an Investment Manager at QRS NV in Belgium. From 1989 until 1999 Frank Arts was a judge in Commercial cases at the Commercial Court in Antwerp.

Frank Arts has been a board member of Fortis from 1988 until 2000 and was board member of Gevaert Photo Producten NV from 1984 until 1999. He was also board member of ‘Compagnie des Participations Internationales’ Group Paribas from 1984 till 1999. He held the following board memberships: Immoring Antwerpen N.V., Fortales, Asphales et Lessius N.V.

   

Ronny Bruckner (1957, Belgian)

Ronny Bruckner was born in 1957 and is a Belgian national. He studied Economics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and he sits on the Board of a number of European companies. 

Mr Bruckner began his career as a Director of Zidav in Brussels, going on in 1981 to establish Eastbridge, a privately held company with interests in sectors spanning real estate, leisure, media, fashion and private education across some 40 operating subsidiaries in Europe and the United States.

As CEO of Eastbridge, between 1981 and 2003, Mr Bruckner founded and developed a number of high profile joint ventures with companies in various markets including LVMH, Sephora, Canal+, Nestlé, L’Oréal and Kodak.

Mr Bruckner led landmark transactions and award winning developments in the real estate sector, overseeing significant portfolios based in the US and in Central & Eastern. His experience within Retail has involved the development of distribution agreements with some of the most high profile fashion and luxury brand labels including Zara, Esprit, Mango, Hugo Boss, Bausch & Lamb, and Chanel among other luxury brands. 

Mr Bruckner has founded several not-for-profit organisations including PlaNet, an organization founded in 2000 to help alleviate poverty through the development of microfinance, and Poland for Europe, an association formed to support Poland’s accession into the European Union.

Mr Bruckner holds the following board memberships: Eastbridge Sàrl, Flime Investments Sàrl, Westbridge Sàrl, Centrum Development and Investments Sàrl, Celio International S.A. and PlaNet Finance.

Shaoliang Jin (1960, Chinese)

 

Shaoliang Jin was born in 1960 and is a Chinese national. He holds a Master of Science from the Norwegian Institution of Technology in Naval architecture and Marine Construction and a Master of Science in Industrial Economy.

Shaoliang Jin started his career in 1985 as a project engineer at STATOIL. In 1988 he became manager at Nanhai oil services company and left in 1989 to join ESSO China limited as Administrative Services Supervisor. In 1992 he joined Ping An Insurance Company where he held various positions in reinsurance, accounting, actuary, strategic planning and development- and investor relations.Shaoliang Jin is currently head of the Office of the Board of Directors at Ping An Group.

Shaoliang Jin does currently not hold any other board memberships.

   

Bridget McIntyre (1961, British)

 

Bridget McIntyre holds a BSc Administration from Aston University in the United Kingdom. She is a Chartered Management Accountant and a highly experienced insurance specialist. After qualifying as an accountant and working in a variety of industries, she began her insurance career at Norwich Union, where she was Finance Director for General Insurance and Direct Operations from 1994 to 1998. She went on to become Managing Director, London and Edinburgh, and Director, Finance, Long-term Savings, and was Non-executive Chairman of Norwich Healthcare from 1999 to 2000. She played an important role in the merger of CGU and Norwich Union in 2000 to create Aviva PLC.

Bridget McIntyre then became Marketing & Underwriting Director for the newly merged general insurance business, with responsibility for product and underwriting strategies, brand development, communications and public affairs. In 2003–08, as Director, Sales and Marketing, she was responsible for Corporate Partnerships and Retail Business with a turnover of GBP 3 billion. Her role included developing and implementing the Retail strategy for Norwich Union and growing the partnership business.

She joined RSA Insurance Group in 2005 as UK Chief Executive and a Board Director. She led the UK Business, implementing new IT systems, improving efficiency and service, and profitably growing the business. She was part of the Group Executive, which consistently exceeded analysts’ expectations. Most recently, she has been a consultant to the insurance sector in both the UK and Australia.

Bridget McIntyre is Governor of the Health Foundation and a former member of the ABI General Insurance Council.

   

Roel Nieuwdorp (1943, Dutch)

Roel Nieuwdorp was born in 1943 and is a Dutch national. He holds a law degree from the Université Catholique de Louvain and a Master of Law (LLM) from the University of Pennsylvania.

Roel Nieuwdorp started his career in 1966 as assistant at the Faculty of Law. From 1972 until 2001 he worked at De Bandt, Van Hecke. Lagae where he started as associate and later became managing partner. From 2001 until 2008 Roel Nieuwdorp was head of the Corporate and M&A Group at Loyens & Loeff. Roel Nieuwdorp has been Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Belgium and Luxembourg. He is currently part-time professor at the University of Antwerp in Company Law.

Roel Nieuwdorp does currently not hold any board memberships other than a membership at Board of Directors of Groep T (vzw).

   

Lionel Perl (1948, Belgian)

Lionel Perl was born in 1948 and is a Belgian national. He holds a master degree in Applied Economics from the Solvay Business School and a degree in computer management from the Ecole d’Ergologie, both from the Université Libre of Brussels in Belgium.

Lionel Perl started his career in 1971 at the former Banque Lambert and worked as investment banker in several institutions and positions until becoming in 1988 member of the Executive Committee of Banque Degroof. Later on, Lionel Perl developed a solid industrial and commercial expertise. Over the last 15 years, he participated in the development of Fenway Group, a Private Equity house active in several countries and industrial activities, where he was Managing Director.

   

Belén Romana (1965, Spanish)

Belén Romana holds a degree in economics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. During her career she has held a number of senior-level positions as a key economic and strategic adviser within the private and public sectors. From 1994 to 2000 she was Economist to the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Finance, later becoming Director General for Economic Policy. She was responsible there for coordinating macroeconomic policy and forecasting; and for the Spanish Stability Programme, which operated across several industry sectors. Between July 2003 and 2005, Belén Romana held the position of Director General for the Treasury, with responsibilities that spanned public debt issuance and management, financial legislation and management of the Social Security Reserve Fund. At the same time she was a member of the Governance Boards of both the Bank of Spain and the Spanish Stock Exchange Agency.

In 2005–08 she was Chief Economist to the ‘Circulo de Empresarios’ – a private institution representing top business leaders in Spain. Most recently she has served as Director of Strategy and Corporate Development for ONO, the second-largest Spanish telecommunications company, with responsibility for internal audit, risk management and investor relations.

Belén Romana is a director of Banco Español de Crédito (Banesto) and Acerinox, one of the world’s largest stainless steel producers. She chairs the Audit and Compliance Committees of both companies.

   

Jan Zegering Hadders (1946, Dutch)

Jan Zegering Hadders was born in 1946 and is a Dutch national. He gained a master degree in business economics in Groningen followed by a postgraduate in business administration in Rotterdam. Next to that he followed an advanced executive education program at Wharton Business School.

Jan Zegering Hadders started his career at AMRO Bank in 1972, where he held various positions in strategy, planning & control and marketing. In 1986 he joined Postbank as general manager wholesale banking, a role he continued after the merger with NMB in the new combination NMB Postbank. After the merger of NMB Postbank with Nationale Nederlanden, ING Group was created where mr Zegering Hadders served in different positions. He was general manager organisation, general manager corporate communications & Strategy, member of the Board of ING Netherlands/CEO WUH (Mortgage and Securities Bank) and from 2004 until 2008 he was chairman of the Board of ING Netherlands/Head wholesale banking clients at ING Group.

Jan Zegering Hadders is a supervisory board member at Grontmij nv, GET Holdings and E-concern.