Office Hours on Risk & Compliance

When building a new business, risk and compliance is probably the last thing you want to think about. We get it - it’s not the sexiest topic, but we believe it’s one of the fundamentals that requires some attention as it can accelerate your growth.

As a startup, you probably won’t need to meet the full suite of all regulations - such as the recent Digital Service Act and Digital Markets Act – but as you grow this could soon become relevant. And even as a small company, there are some things like GDPR (concerning data protection) and PCI-DSS (concerning payments) that you need to comply with in order to even process your first transaction. As well as being compliant, understanding how your business relates to these regulations can also be of great reassurance to investors and other stakeholders in your business. Always a plus, right?

On January 17, we’re organising an office hours with two risk and compliance experts from KPMG. We want to help you manage your risks the way you manage the rest of your business - not as a removed-from-reality check-box exercise, but as an integrated and strategic part of growing your startup or scaleup.

During this session, you can bring all of your questions, including but not limited to:

• What are the high level impacts of digital services and digital markets act on my business?
• How can I satisfy external stakeholders and regulators without a complete risk function?
• What are the quick wins I can implement to meet stakeholder or regulatory requirements?
• How can integrated and efficient risk management help us to improve our performance?
• Why are we failing our (IT) audits, when we clearly understand our (IT) risks better than the auditors?

Sign up for a spot now!

About the Experts

Jeroen Bolt is Director of KPMG’s Internal Control & Risk Management team. He believes that internal control tailored to an organization is an accelerator for growth, as it provides comfort to management and ensures that they can focus on growth and execution of strategy. Moreover, it builds trust with stakeholders like investors, suppliers and customers. He supports startups and scaleups in a pragmatic, innovative, and action driven way!

Philip Axt has spent the past 9 years at KPMG across functions in IT advisory, Forensic Technology, and Governance Risk and compliance services. With experience in multiple facets of risk management, Jeroen and Philip work together with clients to challenge them to improve performance with effective and efficient risk management.