Joep Gorgels
Head Transportation West-Europe
ABN AMRO
Joep joined ABN Amro Bank N.V. (“then MeesPierson”) in March 2000 as an Associate in Specialized Finance. After his one-year rotation he started working as a relationship manager in the Telecom & Media Team in Rotterdam. He was involved in many corporate debt restructurings of syndicates during the Internet bubble collapse.
In September 2002 Joep became a senior relationship manager with the Transportation Team for West-Europe and was responsible for shipping, offshore and intermodal clients throughout Europe. Since March 2005 he has headed the West Europe team (11 fte’s) and is responsible for the portfolio (currently US$ 3.5 billion).
Before joining the bank, Joep worked for three years as a chemical engineer at Fluor (Daniel) involved in many oil (FPSO), gas (LNG), and chemical projects. He worked in various places around the world on several projects for large industrial companies like Shell, DSM, Dow, Chevron.
Joep holds a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He followed a young managers training at IMD, Switzerland. He gives presentations at shipping conferences and lectures ship finance at Euromed School of Management in Marseille, France.