
Innovation Manager Digital Assets
Berit Fuss is Head of Digital Assets at ABN AMRO Bank N.V., a role she assumed in February 2026. Her mandate centres on bringing clarity and direction to how the bank approaches digital assets. She is based in Amsterdam. Prior to this appointment, she spent over four years working on digital assets within other departments at ABN AMRO, most recently as Innovation Manager for Digital Assets. She hosted a panel at ABN AMRO Clearing Bank's Amsterdam Investor Forum on how technology and innovation shape the industry, and has participated in the Crypto Assets Conference at Frankfurt School of Finance and the European Blockchain Convention 2022.
Before joining ABN AMRO, Fuss spent almost two years as Director of Fintech Solutions at RIDDLE&CODE, a blockchain interface company. Earlier in her career she held roles at ING and unchain.io, and was involved with Blockchain Netherlands. She co-founded Dutch Blockchain Week. She has been active in the blockchain sector since 2014. Fuss holds a Bachelor's in Business Administration — International Business & Management and a Master's in the same subject, both from the University of Groningen.

Venture Lead ID & Pay | Strategy & Innovation | Digital Assets
Gerjon Lagendijk is Venture Lead ID & Pay at ABN AMRO Bank N.V., a position he has held since January 2025. In this role, he leads ID & Pay, a pan-European payment and identity solution incubated within ABN AMRO. The product provides payment infrastructure, a central client and cash administration, and a one-stop-shop solution enabling non-bank financial platforms to process payments and hold cash in wallets, with embedded onboarding and KYC functionality including a reusable eID.
His current mandate sits within ABN AMRO's Strategy & Innovation department, specifically in the Digital Assets team. Prior to becoming Venture Lead, he served as Innovation Manager for ID & Pay from June to January 2025, and before that as Intrapreneur for the Personal Communication Channel (PCC) from October 2023 to June 2024, including a period as Venture Lead for that initiative. From January 2020 to October 2023, he worked as a Management Consultant in Innovation & Technology at ABN AMRO, supporting management decisions across strategy review, organisational design, and value assessments within and outside the IT domain. Before joining ABN AMRO, he was a Senior Consultant at Korn Ferry from May 2018 to December 2019, based in Amsterdam, where he worked within the Organisational Strategy practice on organisation design, effectiveness, and business and culture transformation. His total professional experience spans approximately 25 years. He holds a degree from RSM Erasmus University and is based in Utrecht, Netherlands.
Innovation team senior full stack developer/tech lead
Robin Hulkenberg is Innovation Team Senior Full Stack Developer Tech Lead at ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V., a position he has held since November 2020. He simultaneously holds the role of Blockchain Senior Developer and Hyperledger Fabric Tech Lead at the same institution, a position dating back to September 2016.
His blockchain work is explicitly focused on Hyperledger Fabric, an enterprise-grade distributed ledger framework. Prior to his current engineering roles, Hulkenberg worked as a Reconciliation Analyst at ABN AMRO Clearing Bank from December 2014 to October 2016, within the Finance and Accounting department, and before that as a Senior Mainframe Developer at the same firm from February 2010 to December 2014. Earlier in his career, he served as a Senior Mainframe Developer at Fortis Bank from February 2008 to February 2010, and as a Senior Mainframe Developer Team Lead at Delta Lloyd for ten years from January 1998 to January 2008. His total professional experience spans over 31 years.









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