THEO KOCKEN
'Innovation determines our leadership in risk management
and solvency management. The combination of highly qualified and experienced professionals will allow us
to maintain this position in the future. Our clients benefit
from our skills to design risk management strategies and
they rely on us to make them work in practice. The services
we provide enable them to reach their goals effectively, robustly and with more certainty.'
Theo Kocken (1964) is partner and CEO of the Cardano Group. Besides a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration (Eindhoven), he holds a Master's degree in Econometrics (Tilburg). He gained his PhD at the VU University (Amsterdam), where he is now professor of Risk Management for Institutional Investors. He worked in the area of Risk Management and Asset & Liability Management at the Bank for Dutch Municipalities in The Hague (1990-1994) and headed the Market Risk Department at ING (1994-1997) in Amsterdam and Rabobank International (1997-2000) in Utrecht. In 2000, he founded Cardano.
Theo is (co-)author of various books and articles in the area of risk management and pension funds. In 2006 his book "Curious Contracts. Pension Fund Redesign for the Future" was published, in which he applied embedded option theory as a basis for pension fund redesign.