Geert Vermeulen

The mission of Geert Vermeulen is to help organizations to act in an ethical & compliant way. He is specialized in establishing/improving ethics & compliance programs, especially anti-corruption and whistleblowing programs. In 2016 he founded ECMC, a provider of compliance training, advice and interim management. He also speaks and writes on ethics and compliance.

Geert gathered most of his 20 years of compliance experience in-house as Chief Compliance Officer Aon EMEA and Global Head of Compliance at Damco. He has been a Director of the Netherlands Compliance Institute and President of the Dutch Compliance Officers Association. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Law Compliance Minor at The Hague University. When he won the National Compliance Award in 2020, he was labelled ‘the compliance guru’.

In 2020 Geert founded ‘The Integrity Coordinator’, an external coordinator of whistleblowing procedures. He helps companies to unleash the power of a good speak-up culture.

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Geert Vermeulen is een doorgewinterde ethics & compliance professional met 20 jaar ervaring in het vak. Zo was hij Chief Compliance Officer bij twee multinationals, waar hij o.a. honderden meldingen van klokkenluiders heeft gecoördineerd. Hij spreekt en publiceert regelmatig hierover. Begin 2020 won hij de Nationale Compliance Award. Kort daarna heeft hij De Integriteitscoördinator opgericht, een externe coördinator van klokkenluiderregelingen.

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