Corporate governance

As a former professional tennis player who opened his first fitness club in 1984, he has over 30 years of sector experience. In 1984, Rene Moos co-founded HealthCity, a premium health and fitness club operator, and was appointed CEO. In 2010, HealthCity acquired 28 Basic-Fit clubs and Rene decided to separate HealthCity and Basic-Fit in 2013. Rene had expanded the Basic-Fit club portfolio from the initial 28 clubs to 419 clubs end 2016. Rene studied at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, the United States of America.

He has over 30 years of experience in accounting. Hans started his career as an accountant in the audit practice of BDO Accountants Advisors, where he was audit partner from 2000 until 2011. From 2004 to 2011, Hans also served as general manager for the BDO office in The Hague. Following this period, he was appointed CFO of Leisure Group Europe B.V., which position Hans held until he was appointed CFO of Basic-Fit in 2012. Hans holds a bachelor's degree in Slavic Languages and Literature from the University of Amsterdam.

Mr. Van der Graaf (born 1950, Dutch) is Chairman of the Board of Directors of GrandVision N.V., member of the Supervisory Board Carlsberg A/S in Denmark and member of the Board of Directors of ENPRO Industries, Inc. in the US. He is also Chairman of FSHD Unlimited, a bio-tech start-up, which he founded in 2014 to develop a therapy for the FSHD muscular dystrophy. Amongst the long list of prior functions are the Board memberships of ANWB, Ben & Jerry’s, and Unilever N.V where he had a 32-year successful international executive career with his last position being President Europe and member of the Executive Committee.

Ms Gorter (born 1963, Dutch) is an independent banking professional with over 15 years of experience. From 1997 to 2009, Ms Gorter worked for ABN AMRO Bank in various departments. She became executive vice president and head of ABN AMRO’s Group Compliance department and was appointed senior vice president and head of the Group Compliance, Legal and Security department in 2006. Prior to this, from 1994 to 1997, Ms Gorter worked at Rabobank as senior vice president of the Derivatives Operations department. She started her career as manager at Moret Ernst & Young in 1987. Ms Gorter is a chartered accountant (Registeraccountant or RA in Dutch) and holds a Master’s degree in Business Economics from the University of Groningen. She is a member of the supervisory boards of TVM Verzekeringen and TKH Group N.V. Furthermore, Ms Gorter has been appointed as member of the Monitoring Commission Accountancy by the NBA and as external member of the audit committee of the “Ministerie van Veiligheid en Justitie”.

Mr. De Jong (born 1964, Dutch) is Co-Head Private Equity 3i and Managing Director of 3i Benelux, an affiliate of Mito Holdings S.à r.l., which is one of our shareholders. He currently sits on the Boards of Basic-Fit, Royal Sanders and Weener Plastics. Pieter has more than 25 years' experience in corporate finance, management and operations. He started his career at Stork in the US, before joining Van Den Boom Group, a corporate finance consulting firm in Benelux, where he became partner responsible for M&A. After selling the firm to NIBC in 2000, Pieter headed the M&A department. Pieter has an MBA degree from Georgia State University (USA) and a BBA degree from Nijenrode University (Netherlands).

(born 1968, Dutch) is managing partner at Craic Capital, a corporate finance boutique for medium-sized companies. Hans has over 20 years of experience in finance and corporate restructuring. Hans started his career at ABN AMRO, where he held several positions, mainly in the financial restructuring and recovery department, and worked at Hollandsche-Bank Unie (a former ABN AMRO subsidiary) in the management team and credit committee. In 2008, Hans founded Craic Capital and since then he has been an advisor to AM Holding and its portfolio companies. With Craic Capital, he has arranged over 50 acquisition, refinancing and restructuring transactions. Hans holds a Master's degree in Dutch Civil Law from Leiden University.

Mr Rutgers (born 1949, Dutch) is an international executive armed with extensive experience in managing international businesses, of which the last 20 years in the fitness industry. His career spans a wide range of multinationals: Quaker Oats, Akzo-Organon, Sheaffer Pen, Prince/Benetton Sportsgroup and Brunswick/Life Fitness. In 2001, Mr Rutgers launched his own company Global Growth Partners, through which he was involved with several organisations as investor, advisor or board member, such as Octane Fitness International (2006-2012) and Health & Fitness Nordic (2007-2014). Currently he is shareholder and board member of Activage in Sweden, board member of EuropeActive (European trade association for the health & fitness industry) and Ambassador for Reed Exhibitions/FIBO. Also, he is co-author of the European Health & Fitness Market Report. Mr Rutgers holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the Hogere Textielschool in Enschede.