Certified Ethics & Compliance Officer CECO (English)

Mr. Drs. G.(Geert) Vermeulen

The mission of Geert Vermeulen is to help organizations conduct business in an ethical and compliant way. Geert is specialized in establishing and improving ethics and compliance programs in general and anti-corruption and whistleblowing programs in specific. In 2016 he founded ECMC: Ethics & Compliance Management & Consulting. ECMC provides compliance training, consulting services and interim ethics & compliance management. Previously he has been the Chief Compliance Officer of two multinational companies. Geert has provided compliance training in some 30 countries, on virtually all continents.

Geert regularly speaks and writes on ethics and compliance. He has been the President of the Dutch Compliance Officers Association, where he founded the expert group on Financial Economic Crime. He is a member of the expert group on Culture and Behavior of the association and a member of the Professional Advisory Committee of the Law Compliance Minor at The Hague University. When he was granted the National Compliance Award in 2020, he was labelled ‘the compliance guru’; the jury called him a figurehead and role model for the compliance community.

In 2020 Geert launched his new company called ‘The Integrity Coordinator’. This company is an independent, external coordinator of whistleblowing or speak up procedures.

Geert is the principal lecturer and co-organizer of  the Compliance CECO course. Geert will cover the topics governance, culture and behaviour, risk assessments, monitoring, speak-up procedures, investigations, anti-bribery & corruption, third party due diligence and ESG.

Mr. S. (Sebastiaan) Bennink

Sebastiaan is a specialist in the field of economic sanctions and export controls. Sebastiaan’s practice focuses on all aspects of international trade law and related issues, such as anti-moneylaundering and anti-terrorism financing legislation, anti-corruption regulations, and other compliance-related regulations.

Sebastiaan regularly advises and represents clients subject to investigation and enforcement proceedings. Sebastiaan, moreover, has vast experience in the setting up, the enhancement of and the keeping effective of corporate compliance programmes, especially in the fields of economic sanctions, export controls and anti-corruption, for companies active in and outside the Netherlands.

Sebastiaan publishes on a regular basis, provides numerous trainings and is a frequent speaks at national and international conferences on economic sanctions and export controls. Additionally, Sebastiaan is BNR Newsradio’s expert on sanctions and export controls and is often interviewed on the radio and on Dutch national television. Sebastiaan is also regularly quoted in the newspapers (FD and Trouw) on sanctions and export control related matters.

In the Compliance CECO course he will speak about sanctions and trade restrictions.

Mr. Y. (Yvo) Amar

Yvo is a lawyer specialised in economic sanctions and export controls and is based in Amsterdam. Yvo’s practice focuses on all aspects of international trade law as well as anti-money laundering, anti-terrorism financing ABAC laws and regulations.

Yvo regularly publishes in legal magazines and teaches courses on sanctions and export controls at several universities in the Netherlands. He is regularly consulted by the EU and the UN on sanctions effectiveness.

Yvo is a frequent speaker at international conferences and a prominent Dutch television specialist on sanctions. He is often interviewed by, and quoted in, national and international news outlets.

Mr. Claudia Koken

I am a seasoned international business lawyer with a background in EU law and competition law. In the last 25 years I had the opportunity to learn, experience and develop myself. A great journey sofar. From working for a competition authority, and attorney at (global) law firms, to founding boutique law firms and working in-house at corporates on secondments in strategic projects. I believe my diverse work and management experience and broad set of legal and personal skills has made me a better lawyer. Over the years I have expanded my horizon and practice.

My practice and projects focus on:
Dutch and EC competition law 🔸EU law🔸investigations🔸corporate compliance 🔸anti-bribery | ethics & integrity 🔸merger control & FDI🔸consumer law

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✔️Member of the Dutch Bar Association (NOvA) | The International Bar Association (IBA) | the American Bar Association (ABA, section Antitrust)
✔️Featured in Chambers Europe, Competition The Netherlands 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016
✔️Co-Founder/Board Member of W@CompetitionNL, part of Women AT

Mr. J. (Joep) Bakker

Joep is a IT privacy lawyer at The Data Lawyers. The Data Laywers is law firm which specialises in Privacy, AI and IT Law. Joep mainly advises clients in the field of privacy law. In this field, Joep advises national and international clients, varying from start-ups to multinationals in different sectors. He assists in the implementation of entire privacy compliance projects, provides ad hoc advice on privacy and AI related topics, regularly provides in-house training and awareness sessions and represents his clients in legal proceedings. Joep regularly works together with compliance officers in various projects and is therefore familiar with the day-to-day privacy tasks of compliance officers.

Joep provides (in-house) trainings for clients and (guest)lectures for educational institutions. He furthermore publishes articles in professional magazines and writes the occasional blogpost. Joep is also a member of the Netherlands Association for Young Privacy Lawyers (Jonge Privacy Advocaten Nederland; JPAN) and the Netherlands Association for Information technology and Law (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Informatietechnologie en Recht; NVvIR).

Joep will – amongst others – talk about privacy compliance and the GDPR, cookie requirements and employee monitoring in the CECO training.

Mr. M. (Musa) Elmas LLM CCP

Musa Elmas CCP works as an (interim) senior compliance officer/CDD expert, advisor and trainer and has worked at the Dutch Compliance Institute for more than 10 years. Since December 2019, he has been working as an independent entrepreneur under the company name Elmas Compliance & Due Diligence.

Over the years, Musa has developed into an all-round compliance professional, specializing in CDD (Customer Due Diligence). He has provided advisory services to dozens of different financial companies and has trained thousands of compliance and CDD professionals as a trainer. At the Dutch Compliance Institute, Musa was, among other things, responsible for the provision of services in the field of CDD. Musa was at the basis of the development, content and design of the National Anti-Money Laundering Congress and the Combating Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing Course and many related leading national training courses.

He was also editor-in-chief of several editions of the Practical Guide to Combating Money Laundering & Terrorist Financing. In his daily compliance practice, he has carried out consultancy, secondment and interim work for many different financial companies, including setting up/running compliance departments and setting up/revising and implementing CDD control frameworks.

Musa regularly speaks, trains and publishes on Compliance and CDD. Upon request, he also regularly sheds light on CDD in the national media.

In the CECO compliance training, Musa will discuss the topic of Customer Due Diligence, in particular combating money laundering.

Marit Boon-Striekwold

Marit Boon-Striekwold, Bachelor in Communications, LVV recognized Confidential Advisor and Compliance Professional specialized in behavioural and cultural risks.

Marit Boon started at ING after studying Communication Management in Utrecht. During her career of 22 years at this bank, she has held various roles, the last 10 years within Compliance with a focus on behaviour and culture. Among other things, she was responsible for topics such as the code of conduct, whistleblower regulations, implementation of the bankers oath with disciplinary law and monitoring risk culture. She later rolled out a risk culture monitoring methodology and moral judgment approach within Global Compliance worldwide.

With this she gained experience with risk culture research in various countries and advised local management on improvement in this area. Thereafter, as Global Lead, Marit established and managed the Culture & Ethics team. In 2022, Marit made the choice to advise organizations on compliance culture as an independent consultant. She is also active as a trainer and lecturer on this topic.

In addition to the above, Marit is a certified external Confidential Advisor, active within the Professional Association of Compliance Officers (VCO) as Chair of the Knowledge Table on Behaviour & Culture, and is engaged as a voluntary confidential advisor for the Food Bank Netherlands.

Nicole Rose

My mission is to empower professionals to use their existing creative assets to rejuvenate ineffective training and produce effective transfer of their knowledge to others in a way that is engaging and meaningful.

What I do:

✐ I support in-house compliance and legal teams to produce and deliver engaging courses and workshops
✐ to encourage people to speak up, reduce breaches and demonstrate a positive culture of ethics, integrity and compliance
✐ I teach people to use my methodology to produce engaging training: https://www.nicolerose.co/the-frame-training-method

I do this by using creativity, psychology and 25 years experience in compliance.

✅ Over the past 25 years I have worked as a lawyer and compliance professional as in-house legal, Head of Risk and Compliance and special consultant roles for global insurance, energy, technology, retail, financial institutions and not for profits.

✅ I work with leading global organisations helping them to build and maintain a culture of compliance, with a particular emphasis on fighting financial crime and encouraging employees to speak up. These include Aon, Airbus, Deliveroo, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Oxfam, Rio Tinto, Rabobank, Rolls Royce, Trace International, Wesfarmers, and Uniting Church in Australia.

✅ Using my creativity and experience training running legal and compliance initiatives, I design and implement risk, compliance, ESG, governance and legal frameworks and lead transformational change projects to create a culture of compliance.

✅ Creator of The Frame Training Method ™ and co-host of the Eight Mindsets Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/41UFtAZP2dpLEJtm68NtHO

Mr. Dr. J. (Jelle) van Baardewijk

Jelle van Baardewijk is a lecturer and university lecturer in business and policy ethics. He is co-author with Ad Verbrugge and Govert Buijs of The Good Life and the Free Market, for which he received the Socrates Challenge Cup 2018.
He writes for magazines such as Business Ethics: environment and society.

Here you can download Moral Grip, a more accessible booklet on ethics by him.

Jelle is a member of the Ethos Center of the Vrije Universiteit for public philosophy and is also known from the YouTube channel De Nieuwe Wereld.

A collection by him will be published in June 2024, entitled Time for business ethics (see here).
He previously published what is the university on earth? (2014) And Education in times of digitalization (2017).

Would you like to read more;

Jelle wrote many accessible pieces about business ethics. Three opinions for illustration:

2024: about ASML and social responsibility in EW/Elsevier

2020: about international chain responsibility in FD

2018: about (women) quote for important positions in Profiles