Jan Cherim

ExCo Vice Chair for EMEA

Jan Cherim has been active as an emerging markets financier, adviser and investment specialist for more than 30 years, based in London, Amsterdam, and Asia. He is a Board member and Executive Committee Vice Chair responsible for Europe, the Middle East & Africa (EMEA).  He manages SEAF’s EMEA regional hub in Amsterdam and coordinates debt fund products globally, as well as advisory services, European investor relations and business development.  He serves on the firm’s global investment and credit committees and acts as Director of various SEAF funds.

Jan has advised financial institutions, corporate and sovereign clients in the areas of financing, investment, strategic development, management organisation, balance sheet restructuring, privatisation, as well as risk management, governance and internal audit concerns.  He served as a Board Director (and Audit Committee Chair) at a major Indonesian bank for 4 years and has been a Board-level adviser to banks in Angola, Azerbaijan, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Guyana, Indonesia, Kenya, Mauritania, Mongolia, Nigeria, PNG, Qatar, Uganda and Zambia.

During 17 years at ING, Jan was a member of the Management Committee of ING Bank’s Wholesale International (Banking) unit based in Amsterdam, and Head of ING’s Financial Institutions business, with global responsibility for FIG products and relationship managers, including the lending, payments, securities services, trade finance, and the advisory practice for financial sector clients (which became Financial Access Capital Partners following its SEAF-backed management buy-out in 2007). He was Country Manager for ING in Thailand, as well as Regional Director for Africa. Prior to joining ING, Jan worked in international corporate finance at S.G. Warburg & Co. in London (now UBS Investment Banking) and the World Bank in Washington. Jan was educated at Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics.