After five years in Hong Kong, Frank Kusse, regional CEO at ABN Amro Asset Management, is being promoted and returning to Amsterdam as part of a major restructuring of how the firm runs its business.
At present the firm is run primarily along regional lines, which has served it well in Asia, Scandinavia and Latin America, but less consistently in Europe and the United States. Globally we are moving from a geographic focus to one driven by function, he says, noting the current structure makes it awkward for functions to be managed consistently around the world.
Kusse is, therefore,being promoted to global head of retail and will...