Bart Everaert is Director, Product Management, Risk and Finance, for Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk and Reporting-Americas business. In this role, he is responsible for the vision and strategic outline of the group’s risk and finance offerings. Everaert started his career in 2005 with Wolters Kluwer’s Professional Services team, where he led various projects in the U.S., Europe and Middle East on capital adequacy, liquidity, stress testing, IFRS 9 and regulatory reporting initiatives. This experience has made him a big believer in the need for an integrated framework across an organization’s finance, risk and reporting areas.