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02 COMPOSITION OF THE MANAGEMENT BOARD
COMPOSITION
OF THE
MANAGEMENT
BOARD
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IMC ANNUAL REPORT 2020
Rob Defares
CEO and Chairman
Johan Benning
CFO
Willem Brinkman
General Counsel
Brian Hitchcock
COO
Arno de Quaasteniet
CTO
Rob Defares is Chief Executive
Officer and Chairman of the
Management Board. Mr. Defares
is one of the founders of IMC.
He studied Economics at the
Free University, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, and graduated in 1988.
Johan Benning has been Chief
Financial Officer since 1 January
2014 and member of the
Management Board since 1 May
2016. From 1995 through 2013 Mr.
Benning worked at GE in several
functions, and from 2008 until
2013, was CFO at two GE Capital
businesses. He began his career
at Rabobank in 1988. He studied
Accounting & Economics at
Amsterdam Business School, the
Netherlands, where he earned a
BA, Corporate Finance at Tilburg
University, the Netherlands, where
he earned a MS, and, on graduating
in 1994, an MBA from the University
of South Carolina, in the US.
Willem Brinkman has been
General Counsel of IMC B.V.
since 1 June 2009 and member
of the Management Board since
1 May 2016. Mr. Brinkman was
Head of Legal, Tax & Compliance
and statutory director / Chief
Operating Officer (as of 2004) of
Lombard Odier, in Amsterdam,
between 2000 and 2009. From
1991 through 2000 Mr. Brinkman
worked as company secretary of
Zwolsche Algemeene and Holland
Beleggingsgroep, and from 1985
through 1991 as a corporate lawyer
at VVAA. He started his career as
a lawyer at Star Busmann in 1980
after earning a Master’s degree
in Law from the Free University,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Brian Hitchcock has been Chief
Operating Officer and member of
the Management Board
since 1 September 2017. From July
1996 until June 1998 Mr. Hitchcock
worked as a trader of interest
rate derivatives for ING Barings,
in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In
June 1998 he joined IMC as a trader
on the European Options Exchange
in Amsterdam. Mr. Hitchcock cofounded IMC’s Chicago office in July
2000. He worked as a trader on the
Chicago Board Options Exchange
and was responsible for overseeing
all IMC’s trading activities in North
America. In August 2005 Mr.
Hitchcock relocated to IMC’s Sydney
office to be Head of Trading and,
as of March 2008 until September
2017, was Managing Director APAC.
Mr. Hitchcock earned a Masters
of Business Economics from the
University of Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, in 1994.
Arno de Quaasteniet has been
Chief Technology Officer and
member of the Management Board
since 1 January 2018. From 1998
through 2004 Mr. De Quaasteniet
worked as a software developer
at several companies. He joined
IMC in August 2004 as a software
developer. In January 2009 he
became lead software developer
in IMC’s Chicago office, returning
to the Amsterdam office as Global
Head of Development in August
2014. Mr. De Quaasteniet earned
a degree in Electrical engineering
from The Hague College, the
Netherlands, in 1999.
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