Consumer Competition Claims Foundation
Albert Heikens is the chair of the foundation. Albert is an experienced director and supervisory board member. Albert was managing partner of the international law firm AKD for eight years, is a supervisory director at several companies and has also been chairman of one of the larger Dutch educational institutions. Albert will now use his broad administrative and supervisory experience as chairman of the foundation.
Ariënne Gommers is a general board member. She is a competition law expert at AGLegal. She previously worked for the Dutch competition authority, the Autoriteit Consument & Markt, for over twelve years. She has in-depth expertise in the field of (European) competition law. After having been active in the public enforcement of competition law as a regulator, she now helps to work on the private enforcement of competition law as a board member of the foundation. Earlier in her career, Ariënne worked as a lawyer at Wijn & Stael advocaten, where she gained extensive experience in procedural law. She also has experience as a supervisory board member in the healthcare sector.
Wim is the financial director of the foundation. Wim is a very experienced financial expert and director. He has worked for many years as partner in the assurance practice of PwC, where he was responsible for the development of the Middle Market practice. He has also held management positions at various PwC offices. Wim currently holds various committee positions and other supervisory positions in private companies and semi-governmental organisations.
Hans de Savornin Lohman is a lawyer in the field of corporate and commercial litigation at VerbeekdeCaluwé. From 1991 to 2015 Hans worked at law firm Loyens & Loeff. Hans is also a deputy justice in the Court of Appeal in The Hague. He is a member of the supervisory board of a foundation dedicated to consumers who were victims of the diesel scandal.
Roelof Prins is an experienced financial expert, with more than twenty years of experience as a private equity investor. He was managing director of HAL Investments B.V. and of NPM Capital N.V. Roelof is also an experienced independent board member of several for-profit companies and philanthropic organizations. For example, he is the chair of the Supervisory Board of Iqip Holding B.V., a leading company in the field of construction projects in the offshore wind, coastal and civil as well as oil and gas markets. Additionally, he serves on the board of Droom en Daad Foundation and on several boards associated with De Verre Bergen Foundation programs. Roelof is also an advisor to the Work and Income Department of the Municipality of Rotterdam and of the Financial Economics program of Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Roelof has a BA mathematics and economics from Wesleyan University (1979) and an MBA from Harvard University (1983).
Giorgio Monti is chair of the Supervisory Board. Giorgio Monti is professor of Competition Law at the Tilburg University and research fellow at the Center for Regulation in Europe. He has held positions at the London School of Economics and the European University Institute. He has nearly 30 years of experience in researching and teaching law, with expertise in EU, UK and US competition law in particular. As scientific director of the Florence Competition Programme he helped devise a successful judicial training programme, which attracts judges from all EU Member States. He has provided policy reports on a number of EU initiatives, including the Geo-Blocking Regulation and the Digital Markets Act. He is the co-author of one of the leading student books on EU Law and a joint editor of one of the principal journals in the field: the Common Market Law Review.
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