Julian F Sluyters
Non-Executive Director
Julian F. Sluyters has been in the financial services industry his entire career. He spent the first 10 years of his career in public accounting, where his primary industry focus were banks and asset management firms, and the mutual funds which they sponsored.
For the past 30 years, Mr. Sluyters has served in various capacities working for several asset management firms. His roles have been varied. These include the CEO of a global mutual fund firm, CEO of a major European fund services company, and several asset management COO roles based in the United States.
In connection with these roles, he has also served as the Chief Financial Officer of a large mutual fund complex, and the CEO and President for several fund complexes, both in the United States and Europe. He has a BS degree in accounting and finance from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. Mr. Sluyters is a certified public accountant (inactive) in the State of New York, USA.
Julian brings an unparalleled amount of Board experience, serving as the CEO for over 20 different mutual funds boards (in the US and Europe), as well as serving as an interested Trustee for over five different US and EU boards.
Mr. Sluyters has been dealing with corporate boards for practically his entire professional career, which started in 1982. He also qualifies as an audit committee financial expert. Mr. Sluyters has a wealth of private equity and alternative asset class experience and currently serves on the advisory Board of EQX Biome, a New York-based biodiversity impact company focused on the mission of mobilizing financial markets towards protecting the world’s remaining biodiversity. He is based in the United States.