Biography

Mr. van Lacum was appointed a director in 2018. With more than 25 years of shipping industry experience and a market-leading position as an investor and financier in commercially viable decarbonization solutions for the maritime industry, Mr. van Lacum specializes in structuring and arranging principal investments and joint ventures, debt capital market solutions, securitizations, and mezzanine and senior debt facilities. In 2019, Mr. van Lacum co-founded Amsterdam-based Prow Capital, where he serves as CEO, overseeing a €400+ million private debt fund focused on reducing emissions in the shipping industry. He is also a co-founder and partner of Transportation Capital Group (“TCG”), which manages private equity and debt portfolios across transportation verticals. Prior to that, he served as Director of Fortis Bank in the US, where he held responsibility for equity investments and structuring debt instruments across a diversified set of transportation asset classes, in addition to M&A. Mr. van Lacum has served on the Board of multiple public and private companies, currently including CS Leasing, one of the world’s leading tank container leasing companies, and AM Flow Holdings, an adaptive manufacturing automation company. Mr. van Lacum holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.