Maasbert Schouten

Within the family office, Maasbert leads the organisation and its investment strategy and takes the final investment decisions. He brings more than thirty years of entrepreneurial and investment experience, as well as a broad network built up over the years within the European private equity world. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded AFAB in 1993 and, partly through numerous acquisitions, built it into the largest credit intermediary in the Netherlands with more than 1,000 employees. He was also owner and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of professional football club Vitesse.

Since 2012, Maasbert has focused entirely on private equity investments, with a core focus on the lower mid-market, first through N.V. MaasInvest and now through Schouten Investments. In doing so, he has built a portfolio of more than 100 funds. He is also a founding partner and co-head of the Investment Committee of Two Rivers Capital, and holds various other advisory and investment committee positions across the European private equity landscape, including at MKB Fonds, BlueMill, Knight Growth Fund and Rhein Invest. In addition, he serves as an investment expert on the entrepreneur pitches of BNR Zakendoen and, since 2018, as jury chair of the Best Small Cap Deal M&A Awards.

Maasbert completed marketing qualifications (NIMA-A, NIMA-B and the postgraduate MCIM) and programmes at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Nyenrode Business University. In 2015, he was awarded the title Baron of Entrepreneurship by Harvard University.