#213: Hugo Peek – CEO of BNP Paribas Netherlands – European banking, ambition and idealism, a one-day career in oil and becoming a marathon runner by accident

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 and authors mentioned in the episode:

Jonathan Livingston Seagull – Richard Bach

De Camino (The Camino) – Anya Niewierra

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Klaas Knot (President of DNB), Frank Elderson (Member of the Executive Board of the ECB), Roland Boekhout (CEO of de Volksbank), Gerrit Zalm (former Minister of Finance and former CEO of ABN AMRO), Ingrid de Swart (Member of the Executive Board of a.s.r.), Pinar Abay (Member of the Management Board of ING, Head of Retail Banking), Robert Swaak (CEO of ABN AMRO), Marcel Zuidam (CEO of NN Bank), Saul van Beurden (CEO of Consumer, Small & Business Banking at Wells Fargo), David Knibbe (CEO of NN Group), Janine Vos (Member of the Executive Board of Rabobank), Nadine Klokke (CEO of Knab), Maarten Edixhoven (CEO of Van Lanschot Kempen), Jeroen Rijpkema (CEO of Triodos Bank), Nout Wellink (former President of DNB), Onno Ruding (former Minister of Finance), Yoram Schwarz (CEO of Movir), Laura van Geest (Chair of the Executive Board of the AFM), Katja Kok (CEO of Van Lanschot Switzerland), Ali Niknam (CEO of bunq), Nick Bortot (CEO of BUX), Petri Hofsté (Supervisory Board Member at Rabobank and Achmea, among others), Peter Paul de Vries (CEO of Value8), Barbara Baarsma (CEO of Rabo Carbon Bank), Jan van Rutte (Supervisory Board Member at PGGM and BNG Bank; former CFO of ABN AMRO), Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen (Chair of Aon Holdings), Lidwin van Velden (CEO of Nederlandse Waterschapsbank), Jan-Willem van der Schoot (CEO of Mastercard Netherlands), Joanne Kellermann (Chair of PFZW), Steven Maijoor (former Chair of ESMA), Radboud Vlaar (CEO of Finch Capital), Jos Baeten (CEO of a.s.r.), Karin van Baardwijk (CEO of Robeco) and Annette Mosman (CEO of APG).
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