Eelko Bronkhorst is CEO of Financial Consulting Services (www.facsglobal.com) and its digital services platform LendXS (wwwlendxs.com). Mr. Bronkhorst also chairs the Board of the Advans Group (www.advansgroup.com), a leading microfinance group with operations in Asia and Africa. Mr. Bronkhorst has extensive experience in international, commercial and development finance and in building businesses in the financial sector. With Financial Access he focuses primarily on developing scalable, technology-led access to finance solutions and impact investment propositions in the rural financial services sector in Asia and Africa. Financial Access has operations in Nairobi, Kampala, Accra, Abidjan and Jakarta and Kigali.

Before joining Financial Access, Mr. Bronkhorst was the CEO of the Orangefield Group, following its management buy-out from ING Group in 2007. Until 2007 Mr. Bronkhorst worked for ABN Amro Bank for 20 years in a variety of commercial and senior leadership roles in The United States, Asia and Europe.

Mr. Bronkhorst holds a Masters of International Law Degree from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands and has completed the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD, France.