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Cornelis ("Kees") van Ophem

Angestellt, Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel, Fresenius Medical Care (DAX 30: FME; NYSE: FMS)
Zurich-Sankt Gallen area, Switzerland

Fähigkeiten und Kenntnisse

Global Legal
Compliance & Ethics' Executive with proven track r
strategies
practices and teams for complex corporate
transactional (M&A)
commercial
litigation
regulatory/compliance and ethics’ issues. Extensiv
yet principled
pragmatism
and a deep understanding of relevant value chains
transaction costs and bottom-line impact with syst
with a strong decision-making capability. Lived an
Rotterdam and Brussels
I worked at senior level at a dominant tel-co
an international joint-venture
a VC-backed Pan-European start-up (including IPO)
a global
public turn-around and large multinationals (over
000 employees)
in very fast and short cycles (from monopoly to co
reputation-built and complex health-care business
whether it is (day-to-day) commercial
corporate (governance)/transactional
regulatory
tax
IP
litigation management
competition law/trade laws (including pricing inve
compliance/ethics (including FCPA and local anti-c
CSR and strategic projects; "kaizen"-capability

Werdegang

Berufserfahrung von Cornelis ("Kees") van Ophem

  • Current 8 years and 2 months, since Apr 2018

    Chairman of the Supervisory Board

    IPQuants

    Chairman of the supervisory board of a well-funded start up in the area of big data analytics & IP

  • Current 10 years and 5 months, since Jan 2016

    Member of the Supervisory Board

    Unicyte AG

    Member of the Supervisory Board of Unicyte AG, a research company into disease prevention and management based on one‘s own DNA

  • Current 11 years and 5 months, since Jan 2015

    Executive Vice President and Global General Counsel

    Fresenius Medical Care (DAX 30: FME; NYSE: FMS)

  • 4 years and 7 months, Jul 2010 - Jan 2015

    General Counsel and VP

    Leica

    responsible for all legal, compliance & ethics and risk management matters globally, including IP/Intellectual Assets' management and im- and export, and member of corporate management of the group of companies with global HQ in the Frankfurt-area, and with roots dating back almost 200 years. It is part of the diversified Danaher-Science & Technology conglomerate (Fortune "100", over 60,000 employees; known for application of "lean-thinking" and multi-functional approach in all processes),

  • 5 years and 3 months, May 2005 - Jul 2010

    VP Legal and Compliance

    Medtronic International (Lausanne-area; Switzerland)

    responsible for all legal and compliance matters; leading a global, mostly decentralised and cross-functional, team of lawyers, paralegals and compliance specialists, supporting a matrix organisation. Medtronic is a leading global provider of (implantable) medical devices (40,000 employees, Fortune 200 company)

  • 3 years and 8 months, Oct 2001 - May 2005

    General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

    FLAG Telecom (London, UK)

    responsible for all legal and compliance matters; led and restructured a global team. FLAG Telecom is a global telecoms operator (operating, amongst others, the world's longest sea-cable from UK to Japan) and, after a successful global restructuring in 2002, was acquired by the Reliance conglomerate in 2004, representing the biggest foreign acquisition by an Indian company at the time

  • 3 years and 11 months, Dec 1997 - Oct 2001

    VP Corporate Services, General Counsel and Co-founder

    Carrier1 (Zurich, Switzerland)

    responsible for all Legal & Compliance, Regulatory, Human Resources’, Procurement and Tax’ matters; created a multi-functional Pan European team. Carrier1 was a start-up funded by venture capital and went public in 2000 at Nasdaq and Frankfurt stock exchange

  • 4 years and 4 months, Sep 1993 - Dec 1997

    VP Legal and Procurement

    Unisource Carrier Services (Zurich, Switzerland)

    responsible for all legal and compliance matters and for network procurement activities (interconnection), created a multi-functional Pan European team. UCS was a joint venture of KPN, Telia, Swisscom and Telefonica

  • 1 year and 1 month, Sep 1992 - Sep 1993

    Legal Counsel

    Royal PTT Netherlands ("KPN" in The Hague, The Netherlands)

  • 3 years and 1 month, Sep 1989 - Sep 1992

    Associate

    De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek in Rotterdam and Brussels

  • 1 year and 1 month, Sep 1988 - Sep 1989

    Associate

    Reed Smith in Pittsburgh, USA

  • 2 years and 1 month, Sep 1984 - Sep 1986

    Research-assistant

    University of Amsterdam

Ausbildung von Cornelis ("Kees") van Ophem

  • 1 year and 1 month, Sep 1987 - Sep 1988

    Corporate, Commercial

    New York University

    International Legal Studies, conflicts of laws

  • 5 years and 1 month, Sep 1982 - Sep 1987

    Corporate and Commercial

    University of Amsterdam

    International Private Law Competition Law

  • 1 year and 1 month, Sep 1981 - Sep 1982

    Political Science

    University of Amsterdam

  • 6 years and 1 month, Sep 1975 - Sep 1981

    Classical Studies

    Petrus Canisius College

Sprachen

  • English

    C1 (Fließend)

  • Dutch

    C2 (Verhandlungssicher / Muttersprachlich)

  • German

    C1 (Fließend)

  • French

    B1-B2 (Gute Kenntnisse)

  • Spanish

    A1-A2 (Grundkenntnisse)

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