Robert van der Zalm

Globally experienced executive with a strong financial and M&A background. Wide business experiences, from senior finance roles in Unilever to Shell to BHP to Noble Group, from Russia, Taiwan, Singapore, US to Thailand, from FMCG to Chemicals to Oil/Gas to Mining. This covers blue chip to start-up to private equity to trading. For 28 years Robert has been a commercially oriented CFO, with multi-industry experience building, strengthening and leading the finance functions for Divisions of International respected MNCs. He has lived/worked in many geographies including 14 years in Asia, 11 years in Europe/Russia and 2 years in North America. Prior to founding GFG, Robert was Group CFO of Noble Group, a $90b turnover global commodity trader listed on the Singapore stock exchange, based in Hong Kong.