Patrick van de Steen

Mr. Patrick van de Steen is Chief Executive Officer at Alfred Berg Kapitalforvaltning AS and Alfred Berg Asset Management.
He was appointed Head of Nordics, Russia & CIS and CEO of Alfred Berg following the merger of Fortis Investments and ABN Amro Asset Management (AAAM) in April 2008.
He joined Fortis Investments in September 2002 as global head of Marketing, responsible for the firm's global product development and marketing initiatives.
In 2006, He assumed the strategic development responsibility for Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, and led Fortis Investments' entries into Turkey, Russia and Nigeria.
He was asked to lead the asset management stream of the acquisition of ABN Amro by the consortium of Fortis, RBS and Santander, culminating in the successful merger of AAAM into Fortis Investments in April 2008.
He has been an investment management executive since joining NatWest in 1999.
There, he oversaw the disposal of Gartmore Investment Management during the hostile takeover of RBS and was later invited to join its executive committee as Head of Continental Europe.
In that role, he let its Continental Europe entry in Germany, Sweden and Italy.
Prior to joining NatWest, he was senior vice-president at the management consultancy Marakon Associates.
During his 10 years at Marakon, he worked with some of the premier European financial services, consumer goods and retailing companies on issues of business development, decision-facilitation and organization development.
During this time, he moved around the world living and working in the USA, Brazil, South Africa and the UK.