Speakers

Brett Hammond
Brett Hammond is Senior Managing Director and Chief Investment Strategist for TIAA-CREF Asset Management and manager of the Investment Strategy & Client Solutions Team. His group is responsible for asset allocation advising, economic and market commentary, and investment product and portfolio research.  Within TIAA-CREF he was previously responsible for performance attribution modeling, the creation of inflation-linked bond and lifecycle funds, and pension research.  Prior to TIAA-CREF he held positions at the National Academy of Sciences, UCLA, and UC Berkeley.  He received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and AB degrees in economics and political science from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Torben Mögen Pedersen
Torben Möger Pedersen (51) is CEO of PensionDanmark – a position he has held since the company was established in 1990. Prior to working for PensionDanmark he has held positions as economist and head of secretariat at the Danish General Workers’ Union (1986-1990) as well as economist at The Danish Economic Counsel (1983-1986). He holds a number of board memberships including The Danish Insurance Association (since 1996), The Danish Economic Society (since 2002) and The Centre for Economics and Business Research at Copenhagen Business School (since 2005). He is also chairman of the board (since 1991) at Dagbladet Information a Danish Daily Newspaper. Torben Möger Pedersen holds a M.Sc. Economics from University of Copenhagen (1984).

Keith Ambachtsheer
Keith Ambachtsheer is the Director of the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management at the University of Toronto and founder of KPA Advisory Services, Ltd. He is an award-winning analyst of pensions and investment issues who advises governments, industry associations, pension plan sponsors, and money managers on pension governance, finance, and investment. His advisory publication, the Ambachtsheer Letter, regularly reaches 150 different institutional clients across the world. Ambachtsheer is also a cofounder of CEM Benchmarking Inc., which monitors the management quality of 300 of the world’s largest DB and DC pension funds. His new book PENSION REVOLUTION: A Solution to the Pensions Crisis has just been released by John Wiley & Sons. 

Jan Snippe
As  Head of Corporate Pensions of Royal Philips NV, Dr. Jan Snippe (1955) is responsible for the company’s pension strategies and policies and for the management and monitoring of the associated risk exposure. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer of Philips Pensions Competence Center B.V., which  (aside from its corporate responsibilities and until it was sold in 2005) managed Philips Pension Fund in the Netherlands and acted as a pensions and asset management service provider for several other (mainly Dutch) pension funds.

Panelleden

Panel 1

Peter Borgdorff - voorzitter
Peter Borgdorff (53) is Managing Director of the Vereniging Bedrijfstakpensioenfondsen. He has spent most of his career in the world of social partners. He was secretary of the Bond van Christelijke Ondernemers in het Bakkersbedrijf and from that position he was also secretary of the employers league. He then worked for six years for joint organisations that were entrusted with innovation, quality assurance, education and collective promotion. He subsequently transferred to the trade unions, where he
supervised the merger between VHP and De Unie.
In August 2002 Borgdorff took office as Managing Director of the Vereniging van Bedrijfstakpensioenfondsen. He is also a board member of the Stichting Pensioenopleidingen.

Rene Bastian
René Bastian (51) graduated from the Law Faculty of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 1984. After holding various positions with the Nederlandse Spoorwegen during a period of 12 years, he switched to the pension sector in 1996. For 9 years he worked for a pension provider as executive secretary and head of Legal Affairs. Since its foundation in 2001 he has been the Managing Director of the Unie van Beroepspensioenfondsen, initially part-time, and full-time from 2005 onwards.

Theo Kocken
Theo Kocken (43) is General Manager of Cardano Risk Management. He studied Business Administration (Eindhoven) and Econometrics (Tilburg) and obtained his doctorate from the VU (Amsterdam). After positions in the area of risk management and ALM with the Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten, he was responsible for the Market Risk Management departments at ING Barings and Rabobank International, respectively. In 2000 he founded Cardano Risk Management, a specialised organisation that assists end users, such as pension funds and insurers, in Europe in their use of derivatives as part of their strategic risk management activities.
Theo Kocked in the author and co-author of various books and articles in the field of risk management, and derivatives. He recently wrote “Curious Contracts. Pension Fund Redesign for the Future”, in which theories in the field of embedded options serve as basis for the redesign of pension structures.

Theo Nijman
Theo Nijman is professor of Econometrics of the Financial Markets as well as professor of Investment Theory holding the F. Van Lanschot chair. Both chairs are established at the University of Tilburg.
Theo is chairman of the research board of Netspar. Netspar is the Public Top Institute for education and research in the area of pensions and ageing, in which pension funds, insurers and the government work together with seven universities. Theo Nijman is also research director of the Tilburg Center of Finance, and academic coordinator of Inquire Europe, the European forum for science and institutional asset managers. He obtained his doctorate at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1985. He has been working for the University of Tilburg ever since, with five years as KNAW-researcher. During the period 2000 – 2004 Theo Nijman was the research director of CentER, the research institute of the Tilburg faculty of economics.

Henriëtte Prast    
Henriëtte Prast studied economics at the Free University in Amsterdam and obtained her doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. She is extraordinary professor of Personal Financial Planning at the University of Tilburg, holding the Rabo/Netspar chair. She works as researcher for the Nederlandsche Bank. Henriëtte Prast specialises in the effects of psychology on economic behaviour, such as pension savings and investments. She publishes in international academic journals and specialist literature and has been writing a column in the Financieele Dagblad since 2000. The publishing house Contact published her books Geld en gevoel and Geld en geluk. In the autumn of 2007 Bert Bakker Publishers will release her book Belevenissen van een gevoelseconoom. Henriëtte Prast is a board member of De Baak Managementcentrum VNO/NCW, Stichting de Gouden Ganzenveer, the Nibud en Stichting Vrouw en Pensioenrecht. She is a Trustee of the Bureau Promotie Podiumkunsten and the member of the Advisory Board of Dé Uitvaartspecialist.  

Loek Sibbing
Loek Sibbing (47) studied business economics (KUB Tilburg) and business administration (Erasmus University Rotterdam). In 1985 he started his acreer with KLM, Department of Finances and Participations. From 1990 until 1999 he continued his career as Corporate Treasurer for Randstad Holding NV. He combined this position with that of Managing Director of the Stichting Pensioenfonds Randstad. In 1999 he switched to Pensioenfonds Volker Wessels, where he was Managing Director for 6 years. Since June 2005 he has been General Manager of the Unilever Pensioenfonds Progress.
Since 2000 Loek Sibbing has been a board member of the Stichting voor Ondernemingspensioenfondsen (Opf), and became its Chairman in November 2005.

 

Panel 2

Olaf Sleijpen - voorzitter
Olaf Sleijpen (36) is director General Financial Policy with Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP. He is, amongst other things, responsible for the formulation of the fund’s (ALM) finance and risk policy as well as its overall strategy. Olaf Sleijpen joined ABP in February 2004, where he started as Deputy Head Allocation with ABP Vermogensbeheer. From 2001 until 2004 he worked as personal advisor to Wim Duisenberg at the European Central Bank. In the period 1993-2001 he held various positions at De Nederlandsche Bank. Olaf Sleijpen studied economics at the Universiteit van Maastricht. In 1999 he obtained his doctorate from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Hij has published various articles in the field of European monetary integration, budget policy and pensions, amongst others. Olaf Sleijpen is a board member of the Stichting Lezen en Schrijven (treasurer), which is chaired by Her Royal Highness Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands.

Fred de Boer
Fred de Boer is an enterprising consultant and owner of 2 consultancy firms in marketing, management and sales, which he runs surrounded by a large network of specialists. In addition, he is the committed chairman of a national organisation of independent entrepreneurs (VZZP) and a member of the general board of VNO-NCW. In Limburg he is the chairman of MarketingCirkel Limburg (knowledge sharing of marketing professionals).
He has extensive ready knowledge, experience and ideas. What he recommends he puts into practice with entrepreneurs. For the short term Fred de Boer likes to achieve quick tangible results; holding on to the strategic course to clients and markets. Good appreciation and analysis, listening and enabling people to excel are key qualities. He believes in entrepreneurs and feels that they are stronger than they think. They concentrate too much on matters that are directed inward such as technology and efficiency. In an enthusiastic way he adds to that an outward, market-oriented outlook. With VZZP he has the strategic ambition to achieve significant improvements in ‘social innovation’ (disability, pension, evc, VAR, and more) during the course of this year.

Roel Masselink
Roel Masselink (1968) has been working as secretary of the Vereniging Platform Zelfstandige Ondernemers (PZO), the independent organisation that promotes the interests of self-employed entrepreneurs without personnel. Via individual and collective memberships more than 15,000 self-employed people are members of PZO. Indirectly the organisation represents tens of thousands of self-employed people. In the period 1995-2002 Masselink held various functions within VNO-NCW Midden, one of the five (independent) regional associations of VNO-NCW. In his last position he was regional manager for the province of Utrecht. From 1993 till mid-1995 Masselink worked for the Detam industrial insurance board in the area of terms of employment. In that position he was involved in some large reorganisations, as well as in the merger of Detam and BVG into Cadans.
Masselink studied Dutch law at Utrecht University. In 1992 he graduated in the disciplines of ‘private law’ and ‘business and socio-economic law’.

Mariette Sanderse
Drs. M.K. Sanderse (44) is senior policy adviser at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, directorate Industrial Relations, department of Pension Policy. She studied Political Science at Leiden University. After her graduation she started her career at the GAK in Amsterdam. From 1993 onwards Mariette Sanderse has been working as policy adviser at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. Amongst other things, she has occupied herself with social security laws, the so-called ‘ontvlechting’ (unweaving) project with the industrial insurance boards, the SUWI process. Since September 2004 she has been working in the Pension Policy department. Here she is involved, amongst other things, in the WVB, the implementation of the IORP guideline, transfer of pension value and ZZP-ers.

Workshop

Martin Pikaart
Martin Pikaart graduated and obtained a doctorate in pure mathematics, DEA mathematiques pures in Orsay. After obtaining his doctorate he worked at the Universitaet Essen and after returning to the Netherlands he continued his career with KPN Research and TNO ICT. By way of his membership of OR (employees council) he was active in the areas of employment and pensions. Martin Pikaart is founder and chairman of Alternatief Voor Vakbond  (AVV), which has an ambitious agenda for ‘polder’ reform, from democratisation of collective labour agreements, via promoting the interest of outsiders, to reform of the law governing dismissal and the pension system.

Chairman

Jeroen Tielman
Jeroen Tielman (44), Chairman of the PensionSummit, joined Cordares in February 2006 as managing director Sales, Strategy & Innovation. He started his career in 1986 with ABN AMRO as investment analyst and was a stockbroker with ABN AMRO Securities Inc. in New York between 1988 and 1992. After he returned to Amsterdam he joined the newly established global telecom industry team of the Corporate Finance / M&A department of ABN AMRO. Between 1996 and 2000 he was global head product development of ABN AMRO Asset Management. Jeroen resigned with ABN AMRO in 2000 to found FundPartners as an independent product engineering boutique for the financial sector, particularly the pension industry. PGGM was shareholder and launching customer. NIBC joined as shareholder in 2003 and fully acquired FundPartners in January 2005. As a consequence Jeroen joined NIBC as director pension business development. Jeroen completed his study at the EUR in 1986, is registered investment analyst (RBA) and member of the KPS. Since 2002 Jeroen organizes the annual PensionSummit as independent discussion platform for the Dutch and Belgian pension industry. From 2002 to 2004 Jeroen was member of the jury team of the IPE European DB/DC themed awards.