Bert van der Vaart
Chief Investment Officer at SEAF (Washington DC)
Bert van der Vaart is a businessman who is the Chairman and a Co-Founder at SEAF (Small Enterprise Assistance Funds). He was born in Leiden, the Netherlands, on the 13 of May 1955; to later move to the United States and managed to attend the University of North Caroline, where he would receive his BA degree in politics and economics.
He also attended Yale Law School, where he received a JD degree. Bert van der Vaart shows proficiency in a variety of languages, and he’s able to speak his native Dutch, English, German, French, and some Polish and Russian as well.
Bert is responsible for leading SEAF’s portfolio company investments and exits and is also a member of SEAF’s Global Investment Committee. Bert became a co-founder of SEAF in 1989 when it was still known as CARESBAC.
In the year of 1992, he negotiated the establishment of the company’s first fund in Poland, which grew to $16.8 million in total capital under his leadership as the fund’s director general.
He’s also the Director at FACS (Financial Access Capital Partners), which is a financial advisory and solutions provider company with a focus on the small agri-enterprises and smallholder farmers. They seek to help them with their hurdles one by one by supplying chain mapping, data-driven farmer selection, cash flow-based credit assessment, and the development of loan portfolios tailored to their requirements.
Headquartered in Amsterdam, FACS has numerous operations in Kenya, Uganda, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, and Indonesia. They have successfully completed more than 300 assignments in more than 40 countries since 1991.
Bert’s roles include:
- Chairman at SEAF: https://www.seaf.com/
- SEAF’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzMAY3p3d7LrNzeYKfiqIbQ
- Director at Financial Access Capital Partners: https://www.facsglobal.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/financial-access/
- Bert’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bert-van-der-vaart-89474710/
- Bert’s Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubertus_van_der_Vaart
- Bert’s Medium: https://bert-83056.medium.com