ASN Bank appoints two new Supervisory Board members at the 2026 Annual General Meeting of Shareholders

During the AGM, shareholder NLFI adopted the 2025 financial statements and discharged the members of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board from liability for the performance of their duties in 2025. 

NLFI also agreed to ASN Bank’s proposal to pay out a €124 million dividend to be charged to the result for 2025, which corresponds to a payout ratio of 50%. This is in line with the dividend policy. 

Appointment of two new Supervisory Board members 

At the AGM, NLFI agreed to the appointment of Arno Pouw and Ing Yan Ong as new Supervisory Board members. They succeed Jos van Lange and Aloys Kregting, who both retired by rotation after two full four-year terms of office. The required approval has been obtained from the regulatory authority for the appointments of Arno Pouw and Ing Yan Ong. 

“We are glad to have found two excellent new Supervisory Board members in Arno and Ing Yan. Both of them have extensive experience in their respective fields of expertise and, as a result, will provide added value to the bank, especially in view of the transformation that has commenced and the future of the bank”, says Gerard van Olphen, Chair of the Supervisory Board. 

“I would like to thank Jos and Aloys for their commitment to our bank. As a Chair, I could always rely on Jos. As a Vice Chair of the Board and Chair of the Audit Committee, he has expressly contributed to continuity in a dynamic period for the bank. The same goes for Aloys, whose IT experience and expertise in particular have been of paramount importance to the bank.” 

Extensive and wide-ranging experience in IT and Finance 

Ing Yan Ong (1970) has very extensive experience in digitalisation, IT and operations and, until the end of 2024, was Global Chief Information Officer of HEINEKEN, where he was charged with the global management of large-scale digital transformations. Ing Yan’s current positions include Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group. He previously worked at software company Oracle and at ABN AMRO as head of the IT audit department. 

Until early 2017, Arno Pouw (1959) was a chartered accountant and a partner at accountancy and consultancy firm PwC, where he also held the position of CFO on the Dutch Board of Management and was in charge of the EMEA advisory practice for a few years. After PwC, Arno worked as an independent strategic consultant to businesses. He has extensive experience with mergers and acquisitions. Arno’s current positions include Chair of the Supervisory Board of Takeaway.com Payments, the payment division of food delivery group Just Eat Takeaway. 

Composition of the new Supervisory Board 

ASN Bank’s new Supervisory Board consists of five members. In addition to Chair Gerard van Olphen and the two new members, the Board also comprises Petra van Hoeken and Jeanine Helthuis. Last year, all three mentioned by name were reappointed for a second term of four years. Arno Pouw will assume the role of Chair of the Audit Committee and will also join the Risk & Compliance Committee (R&CC) and the ESG Committee as a member. Ing Yan Ong will become a member of the Selection, Nomination & Remuneration Committee (SNRC), the Audit Committee (AC) and the ESG Committee.