Speakers

Jeroen Kok has been working in more than 20 countries globally on advising, developing and implementing payment systems for mobility in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. He is a RebelGroup partner and director for the Payments and Mobility team, as well as the Chairman of the Accept Council in Europe.

Previously, he was the CEO of Trans Link Systems (TLS) in the Netherlands from 2001 until 2010. TLS established the first nationwide e-payment system for all public transport modes which is now processing at least 2.6 billion transactions per year. Jeroen was asked in 2001 to form and manage this company by the five biggest public transport operators in the Netherlands, which then acted as shareholders of TLS. TLS is a private company with an independent supervisory board managing both the private interests of the transport operators as well as the public interest of national and regional public authorities. It started introducing Account Based solutions from 2009, such as bike-rental, car-sharing, access-services to offices and business cards that integrate public transport and car lease services.

Jeroen is an economist (Master’s degree) and has worked both in the private and public sector, with transport ministries, transport operators and solution providers at boardroom level. After his initial years at the Department of Economic Affairs he was asked by the Department of Transport to work on the High- Speed Rail link between Amsterdam and Paris where he was responsible for the procurement model and the tendering of the operations contract. Further, before starting up Trans Link Systems, Jeroen was managing the Dutch nationwide mobility program, including road pricing and stimulating public-private partnerships.