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Frans van de Bospoort
Managing Director and Co-Divisional Head Shipping Finance Eastern Hemisphere
DVB Bank SE
After completing studies in Deventer and Amsterdam (The Netherlands), joined ABN AMRO Bank as trainee in 1991 in the harbour city of Rotterdam. Worked as relationship manager for SME in the Rotterdam Botlek / Europort area with mostly transportation related clients. In 1996 started at NIBC Bank in The Hague, responsible for corporate clients covering a portfolio of international transportation & logistic companies. In 2001 assigned to NIBC Bank's Singapore office and responsible for the bank's shipping and aviation activities in Asia and Middle East. In July 2008 joined DVB Bank SE in Singapore and until December 2015 responsible for DVB Bank's global Tanker Group, leading a team of 15 professionals based in Singapore, New York, Piraeus, Bergen, Oslo and London with a portfolio of approx 135 international tanker owners with total loan exposure of USD 5.5 bln. In 2016, DVB returned to a geographical model covering all shipping sectors. Since than appointed as Head of Shipping for Asia Pacific and Middle East and Co-Divisional Head for the Eastern Hemisphere responsible for Asia, Middle East and Greece. DVB Bank SE is based in Singapore since 2001