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Former CEO of ING and UBS, now chairman and angel investor in fintech
Credibility
Experience · 88th percentile
- Has approximately 15 years of investing experience, spanning his tenure as CEO of ING (2013) through his current advisory and angel roles.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Wikidata entity exists for Ralph Hamers, confirming his public notability as a Dutch banker and executive.
Investor score
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an angel investor at Arta Finance, a digital family office platform.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Has made at least 3 known active investments: Arta Finance, Grab, and Palo Alto Networks.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Has approximately 15 years of investing experience, spanning his tenure as CEO of ING.
What you likely need
You're stepping into a new chapter as an angel investor and advisor, and the highest-leverage events for you are intimate rooms where your banking and fintech credibility opens doors that pure-VC profiles can't. You need structured exposure to early-stage founders in fintech, AI, and cybersecurity who would benefit from your regulatory and scaling expertise — and who can help you build a visible deal track record fast. The right gatherings will also connect you with syndicate leads and micro-fund operators who can help you formalize your investing activity without requiring you to run a full fund infrastructure.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA Banking Circle ecosystem founder dinner with 8-10 early-stage European fintech founders building in payments, embedded finance, or cross-border infrastructure — where your Chairman role makes you the most strategically relevant angel in the room
- fundraisingA roundtable with established AngelList and Syndicate lead operators (e.g. Immad Akhund, Sahil Lavingia-tier angels) to pressure-test whether to launch a named Hamers fintech syndicate and what deal volume and LP base is realistic in year one
- tacticalA Palo Alto Networks board alumni and early-stage cybersecurity founder dinner to surface seed-stage companies where your board-level insight into enterprise security buying behavior creates a genuine edge no generalist VC can match
- introsA happy hour for ING and UBS alumni now founding or investing in European and Asian fintech, designed to surface proprietary deal flow in markets where your regulatory and institutional scaling expertise is most differentiated
- positioningA dinner with fintech and AI conference programmers and top-tier podcast hosts (e.g. Acquired, Invest Like the Best, Fintech Insider) to turn the 'Do Your Thing' book launch into a sustained thought-leadership platform that drives inbound founder deal flow
- positioningA tactical roundtable with angels who successfully built credible public investor profiles on Crunchbase and AngelList after transitioning from executive roles — focused on which portfolio disclosures and deal announcements move the needle fastest on inbound deal quality
- wellbeingAn intimate dinner with 6-8 former large-institution CEOs (bank, Fortune 500, or sovereign-adjacent) who have successfully navigated the shift to advisor and angel investor — specifically to share what commitments energized versus drained them in years one and two
- tacticalA Festival office-hours session with 4-5 Series A fintech founders building in wealth-tech or Southeast Asian financial infrastructure — modeled on your Arta Finance and Grab investments — to stress-test your emerging thesis and identify the next two public portfolio additions