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We are specialists in executive pay & corporate governance, providing unparalleled market insight through our unique data technology platform, DirectorInsight

Our team combines experienced business professionals with dedicated market research analysts and in-house software development capabilities, offering comprehensive cross border intelligence.

Our approach is designed to provide a competitive advantage for our clients. Our way of working is entrepreneurial to the core, building on a

culture of independent thinkers and doers.

AMA Partners has its office in Amsterdam and operates across Europe. We have sales alliances in the countries, with deep local knowledge and

network, to establish and grow our business.

Market positioning Unique data analytics platform for Executive Pay & Corporate Governance insight

Board rooms

Fact based insight

We provide boards and

remuneration committees:

market intelligence,

benchmarking and pay for

performance analytics.

Investors

Screening platform

A platform for investors to

screen portfolio companies

executive pay levels, its

management, highlight pay for

performance misalignments &

governance risks.

Human Resources

Competitor intelligence

We provide board and key

professional intelligence to

support companies talent

management, executive

resourcing and succession

planning activities.

Private equity

HR M&A

We offer flexible and bespoke

human capital services in

mergers, acquisitions,

divestments and spin-offs. Our

aim is to help our clients to

move quickly and unlock value.

Services ‘at a glance’

Peer group review

Report & Research

Software platform offering unparalleled insight in the performance and value creation of

European listed companies and the compensation of their top executives. DirectorInsight

provides a fully integrated platform where boards, remuneration committees, investors

and professionals in the field of HR and research, have access to the same data, to make

informed decisions and engage effectively.

We provide an objective review of company’s remuneration peer group composition.

Through AMA Partners proprietary peer group modeling tool, peer group scenarios can

be constructed and screened for appropriateness.

We provide full service support. Our dedicated market research analysts swiftly deliver at

all times, high quality customized reports tailored towards clients specific needs, and in-

depth data modeling upon a client request, to generate further insight.

We offer a platform for academic research, deliver news on leading issues, trends and

education on remuneration & corporate governance practices.

DirectorInsight

Easy to access on line platform with comprehensive, fundamental company financial

performance and executive compensation data from 2008 and onwards, providing

highest quality statistics and data for assessing executive compensation levels, pay

for performance alignment, board intelligence, corporate governance practices and

academic research. Data covers over 31 indexes, 1150 listed companies with circa

30.000 senior executives, drawn from leading European equity indexes.

PAY FOR PERFORMANCE

INVESTMENT PROCESS

GOVERNANCE RISK ASSESMENT

COMPETITOR INTELLIGENCE

o Fact based decision making. o Set market competitive

executive pay practices and levels.

o Pay for performance allignment.

o Demonstrate sound corporate governance practices.

o Engage effectively with stakeholders.

o Robust peer group selection.

DirectorInsight Promoting Transparancy and making informed decisions

o Flexible and simple platform for preparing engagements and vote on executive pay levels and remuneration policies.

o Quality screening of portfolio companies executives and board structures.

o People business intelligence, enabling proactive talent sourcing, succession planning and competitor key man insight.

o Assess company board composition and practice against corporate governance code’s and markets.

DirectorInsight Promoting Transparency

Easy to access information at your fingertips….

Universe of 31 European equity indexes with circa 1150 companies. Enabling our clients to self compose various peer groups at any point of time.

DirectorInsight Board governance insight

Company screening on board diversity, governance risks and relationships.

Up to date Board composition and governance intelligence

DirectorInsight Competitor Intelligence

Competitor intelligence - circa 30.000 executive biographies Simple and easy way to identify key executives for succesion planning and

talent management activities. Understand key people capabilities of your competitors .

DirectorInsight Remuneration levels and policies

Standardized data enablying you to understand and benchmark remuneration policies and levels

across european markets.

Access to a wealth of data covering 7 years of quantitative & qualitative board remuneration (granted , target, company disclosed, realized, oustanding share/options awards, realizable

compensation, contractual terms, remuneration structure, stockownership, peergroup etc.)

DirectorInsight Unique Pay4Performance tool

Swiftly evaluate & benchmark performance and compensation and assess the relationship between

pay and performance. Create your own custom peer group.

The tool is designed to be flexible and dynamic allowing the user to create at any point in time the

data and charts desired relevant to their specific needs.

DirectorInsight Unique Pay4Performance tool

Compare at any point a company’s CEO Pay and financial performance against the CEO pay and

performance of an equity index, sector, peer group or another company.

Enabling superior insight & mitigating risks – Screen how your company’s CEO pay and performance is

ranked against other companies, a self - selected peer group or index. The companies plotted in the shaded gray area represent pay and performance alignment.

Peer group review

Through our proprietary peer group modeling tool, we provide a comprehensive and completely objective diagnosis of company’s existing peer composition for its appropriateness.

Companies can create various peer group scenarios based on algorithms and analytics, providing the client the flexibility to adjust key metrics to prevent a “one size fits all” approach.

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Sample of our clients:

Georgeson: “Having access to Director Insight, has proved very useful in supporting clients on various remuneration matters especially when speaking to shareholders."

Client testimonials: Hermes Investment Management: “DirectorInsight is a tool which can help us easily identify how a company’s executive pay and governance practices differ from peers and are aligned with performance. This is very useful in the analysis of governance risk and in our company engagement work.”

Current Team Aniel Mahabier, Managing Director / Founder

Aniel is a highly experienced commercial HR and business executive. He has built an extensive track record in Remuneration practices, M&A strategy & implementation, International Human Resources, Corporate development, Greenfield business development and General management.

Th.Paul Rijpstra, Sales Representative Paul is responsible for acquiring new business and client relationship management in the Netherlands. He has over 30 years of professional experience in senior business development roles

Karlijn Knaapen, Junior Consultant Karlijn is responsible for building and managing our dedicated research analysis function. MSc Business Studies (UvA); BSc Work and Organizational Psychology (UvA).

Research Analysts

Oscar Lettinga, Quantitative Analyst

Software Developers

Gavin M. Hewitt, Senior Developer Gavin is responsible for the design, programming and coding of our software solutions. He has over 10 years of experience in front and back end development.

Oscar has a degree in mathematics and within AMA Partners responsible for quantitative analytics and modeling.

Jan Keijzer, Head of Technology Jan leads our information technology platform. He spearheads the development of digital products or solutions, the software and manages the development team.

Daniëlle ten Hagen MSc Economics & Business: international economics (Erasmus University Rotterdam); BSc Economics (Maastricht University).

Joris Kuyper Industrial Engineering (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences).

Alexandrina Pankovska MSc Business Economics Finance (University of Amsterdam); Business Administration (Free University, Berlin).

Mitch Zijlmans MSc Accounting (University of Tilburg); BSc Organizational Science (University of Tilburg).

Tiago Jesus BSc Economics & Business, specialization Finance (University of Amsterdam); International Baccalaureate (Dalton High School, USA)

Lisanne Doevendans MSc Corporate Communication (VU, Amsterdam); HRM, honoursprogram (Hogeschool Leiden).

Larisa Bagyinka BSc Economics & Business (University of Amsterdam); Baccalaureate Mathematics, Chemistry and Romanian; Cum Laude Mathematics and Computer Science.

Alberto Maccario BSc Economics & Business (University of Amsterdam); Honours program International School of Turin (Turin).

Benjamin Konjanan, Senior Data Analyst Benjamin takes care of the database updates, and has gained work experience in the banking world.