Machteld Groeneveld joined Forbion as Legal Counsel and Compliance Officer in June 2020.
Machteld is responsible for Legal, Risk and Compliance at Forbion. Machteld is a member of the board of the Manager of the Forbion funds, and Secretary to the Board. In addition, she is a member of Forbion’s Valuation Committee and Forbion’s Responsible Investing Committee, an entity that oversees the formalization and implementation of responsible investment principles into the company's investment selection of portfolio companies. Further, she is one of Forbion’s trust persons.
She has led the AIFMD license application process of the Manager resulting in the award of the AIFMD license on 30 November 2021. Machteld has led the ISAE 3402 readiness of the Manager resulting in the first ISAE 3402 type II audit to be performed over the period 1 October 2022 to 30 September 2023.
Prior to joining Forbion, Machteld held various legal and strategic roles with multinational and publicly listed companies. Her responsibilities including European legal affairs, fund compliance and corporate strategy. She has specialized in value creation from transformational growth through M&A, strategic partnerships and new business development.
Machteld has over 20 years of working experience in her field. She holds an LLM from the University of Utrecht (NL), a postgraduate degree in International Contracting from Grotius Academy, Nijmegen (NL) and an Executive MBA from RSM Erasmus University (NL).
