ING Americas Appoints Bill James and Pieter Puijpe as Co-Heads of Structured Finance Americas

NEW YORK, Sept. 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ING Americas today announced the appointment of Bill James and Pieter Puijpe as Co-Heads of Structured Finance Americas, taking over for Chuck O'Neil whose retirement was effective as of July 31, 2015.

Both James and Puijpe will be based in New York and will report regionally to Rudolf Molkenboer, CEO, ING Americas, and functionally to Krista Baetens, Global Head of Specialized Financing Group. They will both be on the board of ING Capital LLC and will be members of the ING Americas Commercial Management Team (CMT) and the Regional Management Team (RMT).

Structured Finance Americas has been one of ING's top performing franchises with a strong client coverage model, industry sector expertise and specialized lending capabilities. Structured Finance Americas is headquartered in New York and has U.S. offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago, Houston and Los Angeles, with affiliates in Latin American offices including Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Structured Finance professionals have deep client relationships with midsized to large corporates as well as domestic and international private equity sponsors.  Through its affiliates, Structured Finance Americas offers its clients capital markets services, debt structuring and underwriting, advisory services and hedging products.    

ING Americas' strategy for Structured Finance is continued growth in the core global sector teams including natural resources, utilities, telecom media & technology, structured acquisition finance, structured export finance, infrastructure, investment industry, real estate finance and trade and commodity finance.  Structured Finance Americas also expects growth in the local sector franchises which include acquisition finance, healthcare, insurance and special situations.   

"Bill and Pieter have been tremendous assets to the global ING team and bring a great deal of experience to the Structured Finance group," said Molkenboer. "Drawing upon Pieter's European and international expertise and Bill's experience domestically will be crucial to providing our U.S. based clients with the global expertise ING is known for."

James was previously ING's head of Telecom, Media & Technology Finance Structured Finance Americas based in New York. Prior to that, James held various lending and corporate finance positions with ING in Los Angeles and New York.

Prior to his most recent position as Global Head of Telecom, Media & Technology Finance, Puijpe served in a wide variety of roles, including Global Head of Corporate & Structured Finance Risk, a member of ING's Global Credit Committee, the Head of Utilities-Power for the EMEA region, and founding team member of the Natural Resources Offshore Services team.

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ING Americas is the brand name of ING's corporate and institutional client business in the Americas region, operating in the U.S. through ING Financial Holdings Corporation and its subsidiaries.  ING Financial Holdings Corporation is a direct U.S. subsidiary of ING Bank N.V., and a part of ING Group N.V. ("ING"), a global financial services company of Dutch origin with a network spanning 40 countries. ING has more than 52,000 employees helping its 33 million customers manage their money and meet financial goals. ING does not have a commercial banking license in the U.S. and its therefore not permitted to conduct commercial banking activities in the U.S. ING Americas offers a full array of wholesale financial products, such as commercial lending, and a full range of financial markets, products and services in the U.S. to its corporate and instructional clients through ING Financial Holdings Corporation, and its affiliates. 

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