People;

Jeroen Nas

The people around the Latin American Design Foundation

(Jose) Jeroen Nas

Jeroen Nas (1967) is managing partner of Managed Capital Partners since April 2006. MCP is a venture capital firm working in Amsterdam, London and the USA. Through his role in MCP, he is active in the boards or as advisor of several portfolio companies, like BridgeTools, I-Block, next to being responsible for PeopleForce Europe. He also acts as CFO for Otro Diseno, a design store and event organizer. Before all that, he was working for Alfa Delta Compendium as Director of Finance. In this role, he was responsible for the results of finance consultancy, the outsourcing activities and recruitment for customers. He's been involved in projects like the introduction of Sarbanes-Oxley in ING Group and the implementation of IFRS at the same financial institution during 3 years in total. Before this, he was since September 2001 working for Accenture as senior manager, managing and selling complex projects for large financial institutions, with an accent on outsourcing business processes. Projects of Jeroen include leading the program management for the introduction of integrated financial services in PON, the Dutch largest car importer, setting up the outsourcing strategy of Rabobank and program management of a large cost savings project in Rabobank.

From May 1st, 2000 to September, 2001 Jeroen was the CEO of Exterre. Exterre delivered Fund and Venture Management Services, as well as Merger and Acquisition Services to Corporate Venture Funds, Venture Capitalists and Informal Investors. Exterre invested for its customers in (starting) companies and helped these companies to grow fast.

Before this, Jeroen was Head of Electronic Banking/ Direct Channels at ING Bank Netherlands for two years. The marketing and product management of electronic banking services, internet services, telephony and the direct mail channel for both the retail, as well as the wholesale market, were the main areas that he was responsible for. He did this for both ING Bank Brands, including Postbank Zakelijk. A special area of interest was the development of electronic payment services, were Jeroen’s initiatives have lead to the introduction of a new ING payment services group for the Dutch market (TWYP; The Way You Pay). Within ING Group he participated in developing the electronic commerce strategy as well as in projects that evolved from this, like the Dutch free ISP ‘Freeler’.

Before this, he was Manager ICT and internal communications at Rabofacet, the IT-branch of Rabobank. Until January 1996, he was manager Marketing & Business Development of the Internet branch of Rabobank: TrefPunt Nederland, that he had initiated and built into an organization of 120 people. He also initiated the first steps of Rabobank (www.rabobank.nl) on the electronic highway in 1994 and he thus created Europe's first -and later largest- banking website.

Before he started Rabobank’s Internet projects, telecommunication projects like mobile telephony and new media projects were his area of expertise. The largest project involved a project in an alliance between BellSouth, Getronics, Schiphol Airport and Rabobank. Office automation and workflow management systems, as well as process reengineering have been the topics that Jeroen started to work with at Rabobank. Before the 5 years that Jeroen spent at Rabobank, he did a business reengineering project for a Dutch insurance company: Hooge Huys Verzekeringen.

Educational base of Jeroen’s career was founded at the University of Amsterdam, where he studied business informatics/economics. Later he finished an Executive MBA at the Rotterdam School of Management/Erasmus University in Rotterdam (with honor).

Since 1999 Jeroen teached at the financial MBA of the Scuola Superiore in Catania, Sicilia, the ING Busines School and numerous masters courses and MBA courses at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. The topics he teaches are ‘The Management of Strategic Alliances’, an ‘Electronic Commerce Overview’, ‘Electronic Payment Services’, ‘Distribution Strategies’ and ‘Valuation Methods for Investment Strategies’.

Since 1998 he is a board member of the Dutch Internet Society, in which he is responsible for projects like the formation of the Dutch internet guarantee fund and the expert group Venture Capital.

In 2001 he co-founded the Latin American Design Foundation, in which board he has been since.

Jeroen is an experienced speaker and has given presentations throughout Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia.