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Thursday 13 June 2024
Thursday 13 June 2023 Eric Smit, founder Follow The Money

Eric Smit (1967) is the founder and long term chief editor of Follow The Money, an award winning platform for investigative journalism.

For this 15th edition of the CFO.community meetup, we invited journalist and enterpreneur Eric Smit. Roughly fourteen years ago Eric founded Follow The Money, an award winning platform for investigative journalism. Eric will take us on his journey as chief editor - what where the most catching publications, how did they originate, and which considerations did he as chief editor face to decide whether or not to publish these often high-profile cases. After the keynote, Eric will be available to answer questions from the audience.

  • 17:00 – walk-in
  • 18:00 - start keynote
  • 19:00 - social, drinks, networking

The event takes place in Amsterdam (Wibautstraat). The location can easily be reached with both car and public transport. After signing up you'll receive an invite with the location.

Food and drinks are catered for. Participation in the event is free of charge.

About CFO.community

Connecting people & knowledge

Founded in 2016, CFO.community brings together finance executives from tech-enabled companies with in-person events. We enable meeting likeminded people who operate in similar roles in the same industry, in an in informal setting and out of their day-to-day company routine.

We aspire an informal, low-barrier, and inspring atmosphere where it is easy to catch up with peers. You can attend events as you please: it is not mandatory to attend all events. Participation to events is always free of charge.

We typically invite external keynote speakers to the events. Earlier speakers include:
- JP Balkenende (former prime minister)
- Pieter Hasekamp (head of the CPB)
- Hans van de Vlist (head of the FIOD)
- Jeroen Slob (former CFO of Ajax)
- Joris Luyendijk (journalist and writer)
- Eloy Lindeijer (chief investment officer PGGM)

There is no strict definition of ‘tech company’, yet common denominators are a tech-centered business model, some form of growth capital (VC/PE) and/or rapid growth. CFO's attending will typically work for companies in the internet/software/fintech, biotech, medtech or deeptech/hardware industries.

CFO.community is sponsored by ABN Amro and NautaDutilh. If you have questions, please contact co-founder Marie-Claire van Hessen at info@cfo.community.