Cardano announced the appointment of Bart Heenk and Steven Catchpole to manage and develop client relationships. Heenk joins from SEI as Cardanos commercial director for the Netherlands with responsibility for the expansion of Cardanos activities in the Dutch market. Catchpole will work with UK clients.
We are delighted to have Bart Heenk and Steven Catchpole on board at Cardano, says Theo Kocken, founder and CEO of Cardano. Not only is Cardano the European market leading risk and overlay manager, we have also established ourselves as a very successful Solvency Manager in the UK market during the past two years. Barts extensive knowledge of the financial markets and his experience in asset management will enable us to emulate this success in the Netherlands. Steves appointment strengthens our UK Client Team at a time when we are seeing increased demand for Solvency Management services.
Bart Heenk set up and has led SEIs Dutch branch for the past five years. He has over 20 years experience in the investment industry, having also worked at Rabobank, Citigroup and Shell. In his previous roles he has covered fiduciary management, asset management and various investment banking areas.
Steven Catchpole joins from PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was an investment advisor for eight years. He specialised in giving strategic investment advice to trustees and corporate sponsors of defined benefit schemes. During 2008, he spent seven months on secondment to the Pension Protection Fund as the Risk and Performance Manager.
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