Patrick Ryan, MBA

Patrick has over 20 years of experience in international business development, process consulting, IT, shared-service centre set-up and management, outsourcing and offshoring.

He started his career with KPMG in Ireland in the mid-80s. After a couple of years in London he moved to the Netherlands where he progressed though a series of international IT management, leadership and business development positions with the ABN Amro Bank, Mattel Toys and Wipro Technology. Over the years Patrick has lived and worked for extended periods in Dublin, London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Los Angeles and has initiated and led projects and built and managed teams in 20+ countries in the developed and developing world.

Patrick is also the founder of ājīva holdings bv, a sourcing, process and new-venture consultancy based in Amsterdam.

He received an MBA from IESE in September of 2002.

drs Katrien Siewertsz van Reesema, MBA

Katrien has over 15 years experience in banking, project and people management .

She studied business economics at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and started her career as management trainee at the ABN Amro Bank. She has years of experience in international finance as commercial account manager in export finance and corporate banking.

She also worked as a project manager for large international IT projects and has significant experience in large reorganization projects and new global business unit start-ups. She has deep compliance knowledge and experience from her time running the bank's Customer Due Diligence function. She has set up and developed the in-house CDD business in ABN AMRO for all Dutch customers, both retail and wholesale. This included the set up of the organisation and the procedures, as well as management of 8,000 cases pa and 70 people.

She received her MBA from IESE in September of 2002.