Jaap Kalverkamp

Jaap Kalverkamp was Director, Global Shipping Group at Fortis Bank N.V. at the time of his Mare Forum appearances. He entered ship finance in 1992 at Bank Mees & Hope and at MeesPierson established the Asian ship finance operations as regional head in Singapore. At Fortis Bank he was global head of ship financing from 2001 and later headed Merchant Banking Asia in Hong Kong, and he subsequently held senior roles at ABN AMRO in Amsterdam, New York and Asia.

He holds a master's degree in maritime engineering and served in the Royal Dutch Navy. In 2023 he became a Partner at Synergy Capital.

He was a panellist at the Marine Investments Financing Forum (MIFF) in 2002 and 2003.