Eric is a Dutch economist with an MBA from London Business School. Currently Group Chief Financial Officer at Telia Company AB, the leading Nordic and Baltic telecommunications group, he has extensive general and operational management, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and strategy experience.
He is a regular advisor to private equity firms and institutional investors on their portfolio investments and sits on the advisory board of various companies in which he is an investor.
Prior to this, Eric was Group CFO of William Hill Ltd, where he was responsible for the successful sale to 888 Plc. He previously held the same role at a number of other leading listed companies including IWG Plc in Switzerland, TeleCity Group Plc in the UK and Royal KPN NV in the Netherlands. Eric started his career in London, working in M&A and Corporate Finance at Deutsche Bank and ABN Amro.
