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Read ArticleAs Managing Director of Avida International, Bart Heenk heads Avida in the UK. Typical projects Bart gets involved in include organisational change and outsourcing strategies for complex investment and risk management activities. Previously, Bart performed several senior roles at Cardano, SEI, Citibank/Citigroup and Royal Dutch Shell. Bart is an econometrician by training and, outside of Avida, he lectures at various business schools and seminars. He has also been Trustee/vice-Chair for a Dutch charity and acts as a pro-bono treasury advisor to a charitable bank.
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In the early 2000’s SEI wanted to expand their manager-of-managers business into continental Europe. As Managing Director for Northern Europe, I was given the responsibility to develop the business in the main European pensions markets outside the UK (Netherlands in particular)
I opened an office in the Netherlands and, with a couple of colleagues, built the business case for a different proposition tailored to what the market needed. We also worked on convincing the UK team to develop a more Europe-centric proposition, backed by better analytics, systems and reporting. After some initial successes, we were able to convince some of the forward-thinking US-based business leaders to back a more solutions-based approach. We developed marketing materials, regular thought leadership pieces and developed relationships with the major consultants who were most likely to support change and hence a ‘new kid on the block’.
Through all of this we: built the fastest growing business in SEI’s institutional business worldwide, gained the largest single client deal in SEI’s history, built the first profitable business outside the North-American Market. I am particularly proud of the fact that these achievements were made in the face of substantial adversity: scepticism and conservatism within SEI HQ, plus some personal adversity.
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Read ArticlePaul Boerboom founded Avida International in 2006 and has been advising institutional investors and their advisers throughout Europe ever since. Typical themes are client retention, commercial development, partnering and outsourcing in various (complex) investment areas such as investment consulting, fiduciary management and illiquid investments.
Previously, Paul performed a number of senior roles at Royal Dutch Shell and has lived in Latin America and various European countries. During this time he was part of the Supervisory Committee of various joint ventures and led complex M&A projects and contractual negotiations in the renewable energy, gas and power sectors. He also acted as Head of Investment Strategy and portfolio manager private equity for Shell Pensions.
Sally Bridgeland is an actuary with pensions and investment experience as an adviser, trustee and non executive director.
Sally is a non-executive director at insurer Royal London, at Impax Asset Management and Local Pensions Partnership Limited, where she chairs its FCA regulated investment company.
Until recently Sally was a pension trustee for both NEST Corporation and the Lloyds Bank pension funds, having previously been Chief Executive Officer of the BP Pension Scheme 2007-14. She spent 20 years with Aon as a consultant and in research and innovation.
Simone Lavelle has a strong pensions industry background having worked with some of its leading players in her career. Her early career spanned risk management and control, which provided a strong technical and control foundation for her work in the pensions industry.
She joined Avida in 2014 where she is involved in projects for organisational change and client retention programmes. Prior to Avida she was Director at Law Debenture in the UK, where she co-managed the Independent Trustees Team as well as acting as an Independent Trustee. Prior to that she was COO/CFO at Cardano UK, responsible for shaping the financial, operational and support functions as well as risk governance. Simone started her career at ING, progressing to Rabobank International where she was Executive Director and Head of Risk Control.
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