Since January 2024, Hugo Peek has been CEO of BNP Paribas Netherlands. He leads the Dutch corporate and investment bank and oversees BNP Paribas’s various businesses in the Netherlands.
Peek began his career at ABN AMRO in 1994. He spent most of the following twenty-five years there, apart from a period at Kempen & Co. At ABN AMRO, he held several leadership roles in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate banking. In his last role there, he was responsible for Corporate & Institutional Banking in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
After leaving ABN AMRO, Peek served as interim CFO of ParkBee, partner and Head of Private Debt at DIF Capital Partners, and partner at ACE Advisory. He also held supervisory board roles in private banking, impact investing and parking technology. In 2024, he returned to banking at BNP Paribas.
Finally, Hugo is 57 years old and lives with his wife. They have two grown-up children.
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Books mentioned in the epsiode:
Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach
De Camino (The Camino) – Anya Niewierra
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Previous guests on the Leaders in Finance podcast include: Klaas Knot (President DNB), Frank Elderson (Executive Board, ECB), Roland Boekhout (CEO ASN Bank), Gerrit Zalm (former Minister of Finance and former CEO of ABN AMRO), Ingrid de Swart (member of the Executive Board, a.s.r.), Pinar Abay (Management Board ING, Head of Retail Banking), Robert Swaak (CEO ABN AMRO), Marcel Zuidam (CEO NN Bank), Saul van Beurden (CEO Consumer, Small & Business Banking, Wells Fargo), David Knibbe (CEO NN Group), Janine Vos (Executive Board, Rabobank), Nadine Klokke (CEO Knab), Maarten Edixhoven (CEO Van Lanschot Kempen), Jeroen Rijpkema (CEO Triodos Bank), Nout Wellink (former President DNB), Onno Ruding (former minister of finance), Yoram Schwarz (CEO Movir), Laura van Geest (Executive Board, AFM), Katja Kok (CEO Van Lanschot CH), Ali Niknam (CEO bunq), Nick Bortot (CEO BUX), Petri Hofsté (supervisory board member, including at Rabobank and Achmea), Peter Paul de Vries (CEO Value8), Barbara Baarsma (CEO Rabo Carbon Bank), Jan van Rutte (C supervisory board member, including at Rabobank and Achmea), Marguerite Soeteman-Reijne (Chair Aon Holdings), Lidwin van Velden (CEO Nederlandse Waterschapsbank), Jan-Willem van der Schoot (CEO Mastercard NL), Joanne Kellermann (Chair PFZW), Steven Maijoor (former Chair ESMA), Radboud Vlaar (CEO Finch Capital), Jos Baeten (CEO a.s.r.), Karin van Baardwijk (CEO Robeco), Annette Mosman (CEO APG).
