Corporate governance

Shankar Iyer

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a Member of the Management Board and the Executive Committee

Shankar assumed the role of acting CEO of Intertrust Group from 7th December 2020. He brings more than 30 years of international experience in scaling businesses and has extensive experience in integrating digital capabilities for the benefit of clients. He joined Intertrust Group in 2019 following the acquisition of Viteos where he was CEO and co-founder. Prior to founding Viteos, Shankar was the President and CEO of Silverline Technologies, an IT services company which he led to its listing on the NYSE. Shankar has a degree in Science and Solid State Electronics and a Masters in Business from the University of Mumbai, India.

Rogier van Wijk

Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and a Member of the Management Board and the Executive Committee

Rogier joined Intertrust Group in 2017 as Group Controller and was appointed CFO in 2019. As of November 2020, he has assumed the responsibilities of the Chief Risk Officer temporarily. He has over 20 years of experience in finance, including several executive roles. He was previously CFO Europe for TPV Technology, which included Philips’ former television business, and has worked and lived in China, the Netherlands and US.

Roberto Canenti

Chief Human Resources Officer

Roberto Canenti joined Intertrust Group in June 2018 as Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) and member of the Executive Committee, based in Amsterdam.
Roberto has more than 20 years’ HR-specific experience and most recently worked for Virtu Financial (previously KCG), where he was Head of HR Europe and Asia since early 2015. Prior to this, he was with Barclays for over 10 years where he held various global executive HR roles.

Roberto, a British national, graduated with a BA in Politics from the University of Exeter.

Ian Lynch

Chief Commercial Officer

Ian has a track record of over 20 years in the alternative investment space. He joined Intertrust Group in 2019 as Chief Commercial Officer. Prior to that, he was at BNP Paribas Security Services where he was the Global Head of Alternative Investors and member of the company’s executive team. Since joining BNP in June 2015, he has successfully integrated the Credit Suisse Prime Fund Services business into BNP and created a scalable Alternatives franchise, delivering a multi-asset platform to support clients’ changing needs.

Prior to that, Ian was Global Head of Prime Fund Services at Credit Suisse for eight years, where he also simultaneously managed its Irish business. Ian has held several other executive positions with Citco and Citigroup.

Chitra Baskar

COO, Global Head of Funds & Product

Chitra Baskar joined Intertrust Group in June 2019 following the acquisition of Viteos where she was co-founder and Chief Operations Officer. At Viteos she successfully deployed Operations and Technology solutions for complex Alternative Investment Managers. Chitra has a proven track record in building world-class teams that are able to deliver innovative solutions to clients.

Based in New York, Chitra has more than 25 years of experience in the securities market and took on the COO role in December 2020 alongside her existing role of Global Head of Funds & Product. Prior to Viteos, Chitra headed the securities services business of IL&FS, a leading financial services institution in India encompassing custody, clearing, settlement and fund administration. Chitra is a Chartered Accountant with a degree in accounting from Madras University.

Lee Godfrey

Managing Director Western Europe

With over 20 years of experience in financial services, Lee joined Intertrust Group in 2019 as Managing Director Western Europe.

During the last eleven years, he held several strategic positions including CEO within a Luxembourg-based leader in data management and reporting solutions for the investment management and financial industry. Prior to that, he worked in an online investor relations services provider as Group COO and Member of the Board of the publicly listed company.

An English native speaker, Lee is also fluent in French and has basic proficiency in German.

Daniel Jaffe

Managing Director Americas & ROW

As Managing Director of the Americas and Rest of the World (ROW), Daniel is responsible for multiple jurisdictions, including the key financial centres of New York, London, Dublin, Dubai, Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Before working at Intertrust Group, Daniel commenced his career in London as Relationship Banker for a major European Bank. He then moved to the USA as Vice President for their West Coast operations. In 2009 he moved to Intertrust’s UK office as Commercial Director and has held the position of Managing Director of both the London and Singapore offices. In 2017 he returned to the UK as MD for ROW and took on his expanded Americas role in December 2020.
Daniel’s knowledge and experience during his career entail working with Corporates, Private Equity, Venture Capital, Pension Funds and Private Clients. During his time in both San Francisco and London Daniel has specialised in European & Transatlantic M&A as well as structuring and corporate planning.

Hélène Vletter-van Dort

Chairperson, Member of the Remuneration, Selection and Appointment Committee

Hélène Vletter-van Dort is a professor of (European) Financial Law & Governance at the Erasmus School of Law of the University of Rotterdam. She is the author of numerous books and articles on Financial Law and Corporate Governance. Her PhD research focused on the equal treatment of shareholders of listed companies when distributing price-sensitive information. Mrs. Vletter-van Dort started her career in 1988 as an M&A lawyer at Clifford Chance in Amsterdam. Between 2004 and 2008 she served as a judge at the Enterprise Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Amsterdam. Mrs. Vletter-van Dort has held non-executive board positions with a variety of financial institutions, including Fortis Bank Netherlands and the Dutch Central Bank. From 2009 -2018 she has been a member of the Dutch Monitoring Committee on Corporate Governance, appointed by the Dutch government. In October 2015, she was appointed to the Supervisory Board of NN Group N.V, where she also serves as chair of the Nomination & Governance Committee. Per 1 August 2017, she was appointed as a non-executive director in the Board of Barclays International and chair of the Remuneration Committee.

Stewart Bennett

Member, Member of the Audit and Risk Committee

Stewart Bennett has some 25 years of investment banking and private equity experience. Currently, Mr. Bennett is Global head of Alternatives at BMO Global Asset Management, before that he was a partner and Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Ondra Partners, an independent corporate finance advisory firm, authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. He gained broad experience in advising executive teams and boards of leading UK and international financial institutions in respect of, amongst others, financial strategy, M&A and debt and equity capital raising. Prior to joining Ondra Partners, Mr. Bennett was Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions Group, Strategic Advisory at Dresdner Kleinwort and an Investment Director at Botts & Company.

Since 2013, Mr. Bennett is a Trustee of the Willow Foundation, a charity focused on seriously ill young adults, where he serves on the main Board and on the Finance and Audit Committee. Mr. Bennett holds a degree in German and Management Studies from the University of Leeds.

Toine van Laack

Member, Chairperson of the Audit and Risk Committee

Toine van Laack is a Registered Accountant with extensive international experience in the finance and accounting sector. He spent 25 years at Ernst & Young where he held several senior positions, including Senior Audit Partner and Managing Partner for Transaction Advisory Services. More recently, he was managing director of Janivo Holding B.V., an investment company and family office based in Zeist, The Netherlands. He has also held supervisory positions on various boards including TomTom N.V., LBi N.V. and Nidera Capital B.V. Earlier in his career at Ernst & Young he spent several years working in Asia, including Singapore and Indonesia. He holds an Accounting degree from Tilburg University and also completed the Harvard Advanced Management Program.

Mr. Van Laack joined Intertrust’s Supervisory Board in May 2017 and succeeded Bert Groenewegen as Chairperson of the Audit and Risk Committee.

Charlotte Lambkin

Member, Chairperson of the Remuneration, Selection and Appointment Committee

Charlotte Lambkin is an experienced corporate affairs and communications professional with extensive experience serving in strategic communications positions within large listed companies. She’s a member of Edelman’s UK Advisory Board as well as a consultant to their corporate affairs practice. Edelman is one of the world’s largest marketing communications firms. She’s also strategic advisor and coach to individuals in corporate affairs. She served as Executive Committee member and Corporate Relations Director at Diageo, the UK headquartered FTSE 10 listed global alcoholic beverages company. Prior to that, she spent 10 years at BAE Systems, a UK-headquartered FTSE 30 listed defence, aerospace and security solutions company, as Executive Committee member and Group Communications Director. She started her career in a communications consultancy, advising boards of large multi-nationals. She is a graduate in History from Bristol University.

Anthony Ruys

Member, Member of the Remuneration, Selection and Appointment Committee

Anthony Ruys is the former Chairman of the Executive Board of Heineken N.V. He holds a degree in commercial law from the University of Utrecht and a Master’s degree from Harvard Business School. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by the Dutch government in 2005. Mr. Ruys commenced his career at Unilever in 1974. During his tenure at Unilever, he served at various senior positions, including that of Marketing Director and Chairman of various subsidiary companies in the Netherlands, Colombia and Italy. In 1993, he joined Heineken as a member of its Executive Board, became Vice Chairman in 1996 and Chairman in 2002 and remained in that position until 2005. Mr. Ruys has served as a Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of the Schiphol Group until April 2015, and he has served as a non-executive board member of ABN AMRO N.V., BAT plc (UK), ITC plc (India), Lottomatica Spa (Italy) and Janivo Holding B.V. Currently, Mr. Ruys holds a non-executive position at Stichting Beelden aan Zee. In January 2017, Mr Ruys was appointed as a member of the Board of Directors of HunterDouglas Group.

Paul Willing

Member, Member of the Audit and Risk Committee

Paul Willing is the former CEO of Elian, having held that position from 2009 until the acquisition of Elian by Intertrust in 2016. After joining Intertrust as a result of that acquisition, he became Managing Director Atlantic Region for the combined organisation, until he stepped down from his executive responsibilities in July 2017. He has over 25 years of financial services experience, with an extensive career at PwC in both Jersey and Geneva. He is a graduate of the University of London and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1991. Paul is resident in Jersey and holds several non-executive Director positions at fund groups there.