Jonas has more than 15 years of hands-on HR experience in complex organisations working internationally, including extensive experience within HR Operations, M&A, HR Legal affairs, Corporate Governance and IPOs. Prior to becoming Head of People at Banking Circle, Jonas worked as VP of HR Operations at NNIT, a former subsidiary of Danish pharmaceutical firm, Novo Nordisk.

Liesje is a Partner at McKinsey & Company Amsterdam. During her 18 years at McKinsey, she has served a large number of companies globally across industries, with a pivot towards financial institutions. Her topics of specialisation are around organisational transformation, namely shaping the organisation for the future, and talent management. Liesje has spent the last nine years in Asia, leading McKinsey's Organisation Solutions APAC from Bangkok, offering a data-driven approach to people questions.

Having spent more than 22 years in the talent acquisition, talent management and recruitment space, Peter brings a wealth of knowledge and experience. Peter is currently the Talent Acquisition Manager for BCB Group, who provide the banking and payments infrastructure to the digital asset economy. Peter has spent the last 10 years in Asia – specifically in Hong Kong and Singapore – and has worked in Front Office search and Talent Acquisition for both Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Bank of New York Mellon. Peter is passionate about talent acquisition and helping companies to drive their business strategy with innovative talent acquisition, workforce planning and strategically aligned organisational design.

Esther has an extensive background in strategy and execution, sales and business development, digital transformation, and building high-performing teams in the Banking and FinTech industry.

Esther currently advises Holland FinTech, a digital finance community in the Netherlands, and is an Executive Board member at the European Women in Payments Network. Esther was formerly a partner at Innopay, a Dutch strategy consultancy firm in digital transactions, where she led the Banking, Payments and FinTech practice. Prior to joining Innopay, Esther spent more than 10 years in global transaction services at ABN Amro and the Royal Bank of Scotland.