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Henk Rottinghuis (born 1956) is a Dutch businessman, member of the Supervisory Board of RBS NV, and Chairman of the Rijksmuseum Funds. Rottinghuis is a former official and member of the FEI’s Compliance and Audit committee and stood as a candidate in the FEI Presidential Election in 2010.

Early Life
Henk Rottinghuis was born in 1956 in the Netherlands.

Business Career
Henk Rottinghuis spent 10 years as the CEO and Chairman of Pon Holdings, an international trading and service company, headquartered in Almere, Netherlands. On 1 April 2010, Rottinguis stepped down from his role as CEO and Board Chairman of Pon Holdings. Henk Rottinghuis was a member of the Advisory Committee of ABN-Amro Bank before the company changed its name to Royal Bank of Scotland NV in April 2010. Rottinghuis subsequently became a member of the Supervisory Board of RBS NV, which provides banking products and financial services worldwide. On 4 January 2013, Dutch manufacturing firm Stork B.V. announced that Rottinghuis would serve as chairman of the new supervisory board of subsidiary Stork Technical Services.

Henk Rottinghuis is a supervisory board member of Blokker, a Dutch company which owns 2,825 retail stores across 20 countries. Rottinghuis is also the supervisory board member of the Detailresult Group NV which operates a chain of 285 supermarkets and drugstores in the Netherlands.

Equestrian Background
Henk Rottinghuis is an amateur competitor, international organizer and official. He was elected Equestrian Personality 2003 and competed in dressage between 1970 and 1981.

He sat on the Board of the CHIO Rotterdam from 1985 – 1994. Rottinghuis led the Dutch equestrian federation between 1999 and 2004. During this time he steered it through an amalgamation of 14 different groups into a single national organisation with almost 200,000 members.

In 2009 at the FEI General Assembly he was elected a member for three years of the FEI Audit and Compliance Committee.

2010 FEI Presidential Elections
On 2 May 2010, Henk Rottinghuis announced that he would be standing for the Presidency of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI), at the 2010 FEI General Assembly held in Taipei. Rottinghuis was approached by National Federations, including the Dutch Federation, to stand for the role of president. For the period of the election, Rottinghuis resigned as a member of the FEI Audit and Compliance Committee to avoid any possible conflict of interest. To start his presidential candidacy, Henk Rottinghuis launched a 100-day ‘Listening Programme’. As part of the listening programme, Rottinghuis sent a survey, which was independently conducted by a professional research company, to all FEI National Federations and Associate Members. The survey covered five key areas including; sport, development, welfare, organisation and general questions about the sport. On release of the findings Henk Rottinghuis said that he was pleased and very encouraged with the response. Horse Talk reported that the findings in the report indicated the FEI was out of touch with national federations' priorities and focuses.

Education & The Arts
Henk Rottinghuis is an unpaid board member of the Ubbo Emmius Fund, which raises funds to financially support ground-breaking research and education at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The Ubbo Emmius Fund, named after the founder and first vice-chancellor of the University of Groningen, raises money through the private, business and public sectors. Rottinghuis is also a board member at the Erasmus School of Accounting and Assurance located in Rotterdam.

Henk Rottinghuis was the Chairman of the Rijksmuseum Funds from 2006 - 2012, a position previously held by M. Wim Duisenberg who is the former president of the European Central Bank. In October 2012 Bernard Wientjes, former President of the employers’ organisation VNO-NCW, succeeded Rottinghuis as Chairman of the Rijksmuseum Funds. The Rijksmuseum Funds is an independent foundation which raises funds to support the museums research, restoration, education and the purchase of books, art and other objects. Rottinghuis was on the board of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, a museum for modern art, contemporary art and design.