Wietze Reehoorn
Independent Non-Executive Member
Mr. Wietze Reehoorn was appointed as Independent Non-Executive Director of the NBG Board of Directors in July 2019.
Mr. Reehoorn is an experienced senior banking executive, having held a number of senior managerial positions in a market leading international bank. His diverse experience offers skills relating to risk, strategy and corporate governance, as well as commercial, corporate, and wholesale banking experience.
He worked with ABN AMRO for over 30 years, where he held various positions, some of which include being a member of the Managing Board during the last 8 years (2010-2017) being the Chief Risk Officer, as well as the Chief of Strategy/Corporate Development (incl. group M&A)/Investor Relations/Economic Affairs. In the previous years, senior positions at ABN AMRO included Head of Global & Institutional Clients (1997-2000), Head of Financial Restructuring and Recovery/Europe division (2000-2002), Head of Group Corporate Development/Strategy, responsible for group wide M&A and Strategy (2002-2004), Head of Commercial and Corporate Banking in the Netherlands/member ExCo (2004-2007) and CEO Merchant Banking ABN AMRO/Fortis (2007/2008). From the Managing Board, he was collectively responsible for the integration of ABN AMRO with Fortis and also co-led the IPO of ABN AMRO in 2015. Moreover, he held the position of Chair of the Supervisory Board of IFN Group.
Currently, Mr. Reehoorn serves as Chair of the Supervisory Board of MUFG Bank (Europe) N.V. (MBE) and MUFG Securities (Europe) N.V. and as Member of the Supervisory Board of Anthos Private Wealth Management B.V. Additionally, he holds various board positions in non-profit organisations in the Netherlands serving social-cultural needs/interests, like the position of Chair of the Supervisory Council of Stichting Topsport Community, Member of the Supervisory Council of Frans Hals Museum, Member of the Board of Directors of ABE Bonnema Stichting and Member of the Board of Directors of Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetencchappen. He is a former Member of Board of Trustees (and Chair of the Audit committee) of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, one of the largest universities in the Netherlands (2014-2022), while he has served as Board Member in another 4 non-profit organisations over the last 15 years.
Mr. Reehoorn holds a Master’s Degree in law from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.