Geert is Managing Partner, Strategy & Transformation at Control Risks, based in São Paulo. He brings over 25 years of experience advising boards, senior executives, and investors on risk and high-stakes decision making in complex, heavily regulated, and often contentious environments.
Geert spent 20 years building our Brazil and Southern Cone business, overseeing some of Latin America’s most sensitive and consequential investigations and compliance matters. Alongside his global role he continues to work directly with clients across investigations, compliance, business intelligence, due diligence, and strategic risk advisory.
Clients value Geert’s ability to provide clear, pragmatic advice in situations of elevated pressure and complexity, to operate credibly across legal, financial, and strategic domains and act as a bridge between functional areas, boards, executive teams, and specialist advisors.
Recent engagements include:
- Leading some of the largest and most complex cross‑border investigations in Latin America, including anti‑corruption, fraud, and antitrust matters, working closely with boards, General Counsel, CFOs, external counsel, and regulators
- Advising multinational corporations, investors, and boards on country entry, acquisitions, joint ventures, and strategic investments, particularly in high-risk or opaque markets where intelligence-led judgement is critical
- Acting as a trusted counterpart to CFOs and finance teams to integrate investigation, diligence or dispute outcomes into broader financial and strategic decision making
“Advising boards and executives through complex investigations has taught me the importance of judgement, credibility, and calm decision making when the margin for error is small.”
Geert has lived and worked across Latin America, Europe and North America, bringing deep cross-cultural and on-the-ground experience to complex international mandates.
He holds a Master’s in Corporate Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam, a European Master’s in Law & Economics from Erasmus and Oxford University, and an Executive MBA from Business School São Paulo. Geert is a frequent conference speaker, and a published author on investigations and business risk in Latin America. He speaks fluent English, Portuguese, and Dutch, and conversational Spanish.