Gerard Rijk Email & Phone Number

Mission: to make research in order to understand all the dynamics of a company and an industry and to use this to guide companies to potential improvements for their own business and the world.I believe mid-sized and global companies have an enormous opportunity in generating benefits through better footprints in costs (energy, water, waste, also through benchmarking), social behaviour, geographical diversification, biodiversity focus and ethical values, as well as through better marketing of the sustainability focus and other crucial charachteristics of its products. This should be applied in the whole supply chain, so scope 1,2 and 3. Consequently, both costs and revenues can improve through a broad-based efficiency, benchmarking and sustainabilty attitude, leading to higher profits. Shareholders value can be further enhanced by the related impact on reputation value. In-depth reports:• Oil price impact on food & beverage companies (2005)• Climate change: food versus fuel (2006), • Inflationary environment: the convenient truth (2007), • The Third Industrial Revolution and the Multi-Committed Company (2010 and 2011),• Increasing scarcity: opportunities and risks (2012),• Deforestation-Driven Reputation Risk Could Become Material for FMCGs (2019).Additionally, I have experience in presenting to various groups like:• the Global Malt & Barley Association (2008, Berlin), • HAN Bachelor program (2010), • Dutch leading union FNV (2013), • various leading consumer good companies (eg Heineken 2005 in Slovakia), consulting firms (PWC, 2012) and (institutional) investors,• PRI Side Event Paris 2019: Chain Reaction Research - Deforestation. Contact: g.rijk1.gr@gmail.com or +31637433429

Listed skills include Equities, Equity Research, Financial Markets, Investment Banking, and 17 others.

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  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

  Cum Laude