Patrick van de Laar

Mr. Patrick van de Laar is Chief Operating & Financial Officer at Pelargos Capital BV.
In 2007, while still with AEGON Asset Management he established the Derivatives & Hedging department and was project manager for the establishment of Pelargos Capital BV and its funds.
He joined AEGON in 2006 as a program manager with responsibility for strategic planning and the coordination of projects.
Before AEGON, he worked, starting in 1998, at the Asset Management department of Kempen & Co, where he established the project management department and headed the Mid Office.
He began his career in 1994 as an analyst at the EOE Options Exchange in Amsterdam, where he was responsible for the development of derivatives, the management of indices and their marketing.
Mr. van de Laar graduated in 1994 from the University of Tilburg with a MSc in Economics.
He completed his VBA Investment Analyst course in 2000 and obtained his MBA from the London Business School in 2006.