The opportunity to build a business with the support of MUFG as a premier and highly respected financial institution, combined with 20+ years' experience in FI relationship management, was very attractive to me. Having worked in the US, London and other countries myself, I felt that MUFG's international reach and diverse portfolio would be a strong fit.

Joining MUFG, I had the unique opportunity to expand our product offering and build new client relationships for the business in Europe. While MUFG has been providing bank services to FI clients in Europe for many decades, the FI business at Netherlands is relatively new.

My role covers many different aspects of banking, from establishing trade finance credit limits for FI clients, for example, to the first securitization of a portfolio of German credit cards. This requires close collaboration across teams and geographies, which is one of MUFG's many strengths.

Product colleagues across the bank and Securities arms of MUFG are instrumental in meeting our clients' financing needs. This team spirit sets MUFG apart from other institutions. We are a very diverse and inclusive bank, which makes working here fun. It also give me confidence in our future growth, as I believe that banking will remain a people business, regardless of the technological advances that are evolving the way we work.

I joined MUFG because the professional and collaborative environment appealed to me.

I started at MUFG as an internal auditor, managing one of the audit teams until 2013. Then I moved to compliance where my role was largely to manage investigations. More recently, I joined the global markets team as the Head of Internal Control.

The opportunity to see all parts of the business while I was in internal audit helped me formulate my move to compliance. From there, the opportunity to specialise in markets compliance provided me with the path to global markets.

Along the way, I have been involved in a variety of projects. In internal audit I was involved with operational enhancement. In compliance, I set up a new function that performed in-depth reviews in the business streams that required attention. I also helped formulate a global code of foreign exchange conduct.

In my current role I am deeply involved in the implementation of EU management, as well as currently implementing an initiative on 'first line of defence' risk management. My aim is to build a sustainable framework and a dynamic team to support first line control and Risk management for years to come.