Hugo is a partner in our EMEA Finance and Risk and our Anti-Financial Crime Practices, based in Amsterdam.
He specializes in compliance risk management, with a focus on anti-financial crime (AFC), and leads the practice in The Netherlands. Throughout his career, he has advised major financial institutions in Europe and the United States on designing and executing complex strategic and operating model initiatives, focusing on regulatory transformation programs.
Due to legacy technology, many banks struggle to keep up with the sophisticated techniques used by criminal organizations. Partnering with clients in the public and private sectors to fight financial crime is a challenging and fascinating area, that never stops evolving
Hugo offers AFC expertise to global financial institutions. His areas of focus include support for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) programs, Know Your Customer (KYC), and Transaction Monitoring (TOM) redesign, and assistance to financial institutions under regulatory monitoring or subject to enforcement actions. His work involves analyzing frameworks against regulatory expectations and peer practices, developing recommendations on how to best achieve strategic objectives, and reviewing and benchmarking efficacy and success rates.
Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, Hugo worked at Rabobank Group, where he held senior positions in several AFC-related departments. His roles included redesigning, reorganizing and/or developing new and innovative capabilities within the bank. Hugo began his career at a global consulting firm where he supported Global AML and Sanctions Remediations and frameworks, based in Europe and in New York.
Hugo holds a Master of Science in Business Economics from Tilburg University, and a Master of Laws in Financial Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and has completed a strategy program at INSEAD, France). He is fluent in Dutch and English.
When he is not working, Hugo enjoys playing board and card games with his two young children, exercising, and spending time with friends and family.