Curriculum Vitae Board of Directors

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 in Actuary at the University of Louvain. He started his career in 1967 at the Insurance Control Authorities of 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 untill 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 left Fortis in December 2007.

As of January 2008 Jozef De Mey holds the following board memberships: Fortis Bank NV, Fortis Insurance N.V., Fortis Insurance International N.V., Fortis Insurance Netherlands N.V., Fortis Insurance Belgium NV, and Geneva Association.
 

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)

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 (KUL), 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.

As at June 2009, Bart De Smet was director of the following companies: AG Insurance, Fortis Real Estate, Assuralia, Aviabel, Willemot and 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.

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.

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 board memberships.

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 Econcern.