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Gaston Aussems

Managing Director at Mollie | Fintech Geek
gaston@trevver.com
Gaston Aussems is manager and advisor in the Fintech domain focusing on profitable growth by aligning innovation with commerce, business operations, compliance and risk management. Gaston studied computer science at the Twente University and completed an MBA at the Rotterdam School of Management. Gaston further specialised in payments and international cash management as well as various transaction related compliance. Gaston has previously held positions at ABN AMRO Bank, PwC, IBM, Clear2Pay and the Dutch Central Bank (DNB). For the past four years Gaston is the managing director at Mollie, a European payment service provider.
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Work Experience

Mollie

Managing Director
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Feb 2013 - Current

Mollie is an innovative European payment service provider (PSP) based in the Netherlands. Mollie serves (web) merchants in their payment and cash management needs by providing advanced e- and m-payment methods. Mollie combines technical and service excellence with ease of integration and transparant pricing.

eCurring

Director and co-founder
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Sep 2016 - Current

eCurring is gespecialiseerd in het verwerken van abonnementsgelden via automatische incasso. Het periodiek incasseren van gelden, ook wel Recurring Payments genoemd, is de afgelopen jaren sterk in populariteit gestegen. Voor bedrijven is het vaak een hele uitdaging om dit proces zelf te ontwikkelen, waardoor dit lange ontwikkeltrajecten en hoge kosten met zich meebrengt. Met de totaaloplossing van eCurring kan je alle facetten van je abonnementenportfolio eenvoudig beheren. Hiervoor is geen technische kennis vereist. Start daarom vandaag nog met het incasseren van je abonnementen via eCurring. Powered by Mollie eCurring is powered by Mollie, één van Nederlands grootste payment service providers. Mollie verwerkt voor meer dan 24.000 bedrijven alle online betalingen. De applicatie van eCurring is volledig geïntegreerd met Mollie. Hierdoor kan je profiteren van alle voordelen van eCurring en Mollie. Bekijk voor meer informatie: www.ecurring.com

Trevver

Partner
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Oct 2012 - Current

Advising top clients, researching fascinating topics and innovating together with revolutionary forces in the industry.

De Nederlandsche Bank / Dutch Central Bank

S€PA programma
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Dec 2011 - May 2014

Promote the adoption of SEPA by public and private organisations. Align demand and supply side of the payments industry on a functional and technical level. Inventory and address the hurdles and bottlenecks on national level.

Symbid

Member of the non-executive board
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Dec 2011 - Dec 2013

Symbid is the first crowd funding “equity-based” online investment platform that enables individuals to actually become partial owners of exciting new companies! It brings together entrepreneurs and investors so they can share in the funding of new and exciting business ideas. See www.symbid.com

Business Development Manager
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Jun 2011 - May 2013

Acquiris is the SEPA wide specification management and certification organisation for the C-TAP terminal acquiring specification. Business development activities comprise of staying in touch with the evolving needs of stakeholders as well as interesting other communities and territories in the advantages of using C- TAP.

Clear2Pay

General Manager Consulting Netherlands
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Jun 2009 - Jan 2012

Clear2Pay is an innovative financial technology company focused on delivering globally applicable solutions for secure, timely electronic payments. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, the company facilitates banks and financial organisations in their provision of payments services. Clear2Pay's technology helps to reduce transactions processing costs, and to deliver new, compelling payment services in a competitive way. Clear2Pay's payment solutions offer organisations easy, branded ways for their customers to pay online: from complex trade-supporting business-to-business environments, through e-commerce applications, to retail payments and remittance services. Functions embrace payments origination, reporting, linkage with back-office processing systems, clearing, netting and settlement. Clients include global and major regional financial institutions such as ING, Banco Santander, Crédit Agricole, VISA, MasterCard, ABN AMRO, Nordea, Abbey National, Fortis Bank, ANZ and Commonwealth Bank. Clear2Pay operates out of Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, China, Malaysia and Singapore and currently employs over 450 staff. Managing Director

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Jan 2008 - Jan 2012

The C-TAP authority is an independent organization responsible for creating and maintaining an open market for the use of the C-TAP protocol. A key responsibility will be to guarantee interoperability of terminals and acquiring processors. In that context it will take care of the common tasks related to C-TAP, including licensing of acquiring processors, the issuance of terminal certificates and the evolution of the protocol in line with market demands in terms of functionality and security. The C-TAP authority will fulfil an important role in an international, and more specifically SEPA, context.

Founder and Managing partner
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May 2007 - Jun 2009

Consulting boutique specialised in strategic consulting and training in the field of payments and liquidity management. In two years time the company expanded to 5 professionals and market leader in the field of payment and cash management related trainings. Acquired by Clear2Pay in 2009.

Freelance consultant
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Nov 2004 - Apr 2007

IBM

Senior Consultant
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2002 - 2004

PwC

Senior Consultant
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2000 - 2002

ABN AMRO Bank

Business consultant
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1994 - 2000

University of Twente

Researcher/graduate on the WA-12 project on Workflow Automation
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Dec 1993 - Jun 1994

With a group of 4 graduates of the faculty of Information Technology a research was carried out into the use of workflow management and automation in 12 commercial and governmental organisations.

Education

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University MBA, Corporate Finance, 1998 - 2000 Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) Certificate in International Treasury Management (CertITM), Treasury, 2012 - 2012 The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Diploma in Islamic Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance, 2013 - 2013 Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) International Certificate in Banking Risk and Regulation (ICBRR), 2011 - 2012 Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) CertICM, International Cash Management, 2010 - 2011 Universiteit Twente Master of Science, Information Technology, 1989 - 1994 Activities and Societies: Board member (treasurer) of the students association 'Inter-Actief' Gaston Aussems Managing Director at Mollie | Fintech Geek gaston@trevver.com

1998 - 2000

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University MBA, Corporate Finance, 1998 - 2000 Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) Certificate in International Treasury Management (CertITM), Treasury, 2012 - 2012 The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Diploma in Islamic Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance, 2013 - 2013 Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) International Certificate in Banking Risk and Regulation (ICBRR), 2011 - 2012 Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) CertICM, International Cash Management, 2010 - 2011 Universiteit Twente Master of Science, Information Technology, 1989 - 1994 Activities and Societies: Board member (treasurer) of the students association 'Inter-Actief' Gaston Aussems Managing Director at Mollie | Fintech Geek gaston@trevver.com

2012 - 2012

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University MBA, Corporate Finance, 1998 - 2000 Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) Certificate in International Treasury Management (CertITM), Treasury, 2012 - 2012 The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Diploma in Islamic Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance, 2013 - 2013 Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) International Certificate in Banking Risk and Regulation (ICBRR), 2011 - 2012 Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) CertICM, International Cash Management, 2010 - 2011 Universiteit Twente Master of Science, Information Technology, 1989 - 1994 Activities and Societies: Board member (treasurer) of the students association 'Inter-Actief' Gaston Aussems Managing Director at Mollie | Fintech Geek gaston@trevver.com

2013 - 2013

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University MBA, Corporate Finance, 1998 - 2000 Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) Certificate in International Treasury Management (CertITM), Treasury, 2012 - 2012 The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Diploma in Islamic Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance, 2013 - 2013 Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) International Certificate in Banking Risk and Regulation (ICBRR), 2011 - 2012 Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) CertICM, International Cash Management, 2010 - 2011 Universiteit Twente Master of Science, Information Technology, 1989 - 1994 Activities and Societies: Board member (treasurer) of the students association 'Inter-Actief' Gaston Aussems Managing Director at Mollie | Fintech Geek gaston@trevver.com

2011 - 2012

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University MBA, Corporate Finance, 1998 - 2000 Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) Certificate in International Treasury Management (CertITM), Treasury, 2012 - 2012 The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Diploma in Islamic Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance, 2013 - 2013 Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) International Certificate in Banking Risk and Regulation (ICBRR), 2011 - 2012 Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) CertICM, International Cash Management, 2010 - 2011 Universiteit Twente Master of Science, Information Technology, 1989 - 1994 Activities and Societies: Board member (treasurer) of the students association 'Inter-Actief' Gaston Aussems Managing Director at Mollie | Fintech Geek gaston@trevver.com

2010 - 2011

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University MBA, Corporate Finance, 1998 - 2000 Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) Certificate in International Treasury Management (CertITM), Treasury, 2012 - 2012 The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Diploma in Islamic Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance, 2013 - 2013 Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) International Certificate in Banking Risk and Regulation (ICBRR), 2011 - 2012 Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT) CertICM, International Cash Management, 2010 - 2011 Universiteit Twente Master of Science, Information Technology, 1989 - 1994 Activities and Societies: Board member (treasurer) of the students association 'Inter-Actief' Gaston Aussems Managing Director at Mollie | Fintech Geek gaston@trevver.com

1989 - 1994