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Henk Rottinghuis (born 1956) is a Dutch businessman, member of the Supervisory Board of RBS NV, and Chairman of the Rijksmuseum Funds.[1] [2] Rottinghuis is a former official and member of the FEI’s Compliance and Audit committee and stood as a candidate in the FEI Presidential Election in 2010.[3] [4]
Early Life[edit]
Henk Rottinghuis was born in 1956 in the Netherlands.
Business Career[edit]
Henk Rottinghuis spent 10 years as the CEO and Chairman of Pon Holdings, an international trading and service company, headquartered in Almere, Netherlands.[5] On 1 April 2010, Rottinguis stepped down from his role as CEO and Board Chairman of Pon Holdings.[6] [7] Henk Rottinghuis was a member of the Advisory Committee of ABN-Amro Bank before the company changed its name to Royal Bank of Scotland NV in April 2010.[8] [9] Rottinghuis subsequently became a member of the Supervisory Board of RBS NV, which provides banking products and financial services worldwide.[10] On 4 January 2013, Dutch manufacturing firm Stork B.V. announced that Rottinghuis would serve as chairman of the new supervisory board of subsidiary Stork Technical Services.[11]
Henk Rottinghuis is a supervisory board member of Blokker, a Dutch company which owns 2,825 retail stores across 20 countries. Rottinghuis is also the supervisory board member of the Detailresult Group NV which operates a chain of 285 supermarkets and drugstores in the Netherlands. [12] [13]
Equestrian Background[edit]
Henk Rottinghuis is an amateur competitor, international organizer and official. He was elected Equestrian Personality 2003 and competed in dressage between 1970 and 1981.[14] [15]
He sat on the Board of the CHIO Rotterdam from 1985 – 1994. Rottinghuis led the Dutch equestrian federation between 1999 and 2004.[16] During this time he steered it through an amalgamation of 14 different groups into a single national organisation with almost 200,000 members.[17]
In 2009 at the FEI General Assembly he was elected a member for three years of the FEI Audit and Compliance Committee.[18]
2010 FEI Presidential Elections[edit]
On 2 May 2010, Henk Rottinghuis announced that he would be standing for the Presidency of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI), at the 2010 FEI General Assembly held in Taipei.[19] Rottinghuis was approached by National Federations, including the Dutch Federation, to stand for the role of president.[20] For the period of the election, Rottinghuis resigned as a member of the FEI Audit and Compliance Committee to avoid any possible conflict of interest. [21]
To start his presidential candidacy, Henk Rottinghuis launched a 100-day ‘Listening Programme’.[22] [23] As part of the listening programme, Rottinghuis sent a survey, which was independently conducted by a professional research company, to all FEI National Federations and Associate Members.[24] The survey covered five key areas including; sport, development, welfare, organisation and general questions about the sport.[25] On release of the findings Henk Rottinghuis said that he was pleased and very encouraged with the response.[26] Horse Talk reported that the findings in the report indicated the FEI was out of touch with national federations' priorities and focuses.[27]
Education & The Arts[edit]
Henk Rottinghuis is an unpaid board member of the Ubbo Emmius Fund, which raises funds to financially support ground-breaking research and education at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.[28] The Ubbo Emmius Fund, named after the founder and first vice-chancellor of the University of Groningen, raises money through the private, business and public sectors.[29] Rottinghuis is also a board member at the Erasmus School of Accounting and Assurance located in Rotterdam.[30]
Henk Rottinghuis was the Chairman of the Rijksmuseum Funds from 2006 - 2012, a position previously held by M. Wim Duisenberg who is the former president of the European Central Bank.[31] In October 2012 Bernard Wientjes, former President of the employers’ organisation VNO-NCW, succeeded Rottinghuis as Chairman of the Rijksmuseum Funds.[32] [33] The Rijksmuseum Funds is an independent foundation which raises funds to support the museums research, restoration, education and the purchase of books, art and other objects.[34] Rottinghuis was on the board of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, a museum for modern art, contemporary art and design.[35]
References[edit]
- ^ Management Scope
- ^ RBS
- ^ FEI
- ^ Dressage News
- ^ Dressage News
- ^ Chronicle of the Horse
- ^ Bloomberg Businessweek
- ^ Investors
- ^ RBS Holdings N.V.
- ^ RBS Holdings N.V.
- ^ KHL
- ^ Retail News
- ^ Businessweek
- ^ Dressage News
- ^ Equisearch
- ^ Horse & Hound
- ^ EquineTrainer
- ^ Horse Talk
- ^ Horse & Hound
- ^ Around the Rings
- ^ Horse Talk
- ^ Dressage News
- ^ Horse Canada
- ^ Horse talk
- ^ Horse Canada
- ^ Around the Rings
- ^ Horse Talk
- ^ University of Groningen
- ^ University of Groningen
- ^ ESAA
- ^ Horse Today
- ^ Volkskrant
- ^ NU
- ^ RM Fonds
- ^ Stedelikj Museum
External links[edit]
Category:1957 births Category:Living people Category:Dutch businesspeople Category:Dutch sports executives and administrators