I was born in Gravenhage, The Netherlands in 1956. The first seven years of my life I lived in Asia where my father was stationed. He was a banker and worked for the ABN Bank. In 1990 the ABN would merge with AMRO and become ABN AMROBank.
I studied Law at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. After serving (mandatory in these days) in the Dutch army for 18 months I started to work for a specialized bank in the securities markets in Amsterdam and then a few years later in 1984 I joined AMRO Bank.
After various functions at head office I started to get involved with our new operations in Central and Eastern Europe just before the Berlin Wall came down. I traveled extensively to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic before I was transferred to the office of the ABN AMRO Bank in Moscow in 1994. After spending two years in Moscow, I was transferred to Uzbekistan to set up our new joint venture bank in Tashkent. I was the first employee of the bank to be based in Tashkent on a permanent basis.
After more then 10 years 1 recently handed over management responsibilities to my successor Igor Pakan, but decided to stay in Uzbekistan to pursue other career opportunities. I am also the Honorary Consul of The Netherlands and report to our embassy in Moscow. I have been the Treasurer of the American Chamber for over five years and according to Tatiana Okunskaya this makes me the longest serving treasurer on the board (!) My sport is running and I have ran many half marathons and one marathon. Hugo Minderhoud.

Board of Directors 2006