Fokke de Vries

Fokke de Vries

Investment Manager NOM

There is always more knowledge outside companies than there is inside. I am convinced of that and that also makes me curious about new people, companies and ideas. After completing my studies, I have always been active in the financial sector: in staff positions, in lending and also in the investment field.

The best experiences of that time are always about people and never about deals or contracts. It's the people who have to do it (or sometimes don't have to do it). And having the conversation with those people about futures, plans, choices and sometimes about themselves, that gives energy and insight. From that point, it always talks differently about companies and business analysis or issues.

As a born and raised Leeuwarder with a few years' trip to the Randstad, I now live with my wife and four children in the Frisian village of Hallum. An enterprising and involved village where I feel right at home. I enjoy driving to NOM where I work on investment and funding issues in the Food & Agri team. Issues that require creativity and a network and each time there is a challenge to find a suitable solution. Appropriate for the issue and the person asking the question.