Reggeborgh Groep

Reggeborgh Groep

Reggeborgh Groep manages the private wealth of the Wessels family, whose fortune originates from VolkerWessels, the Dutch construction and infrastructure conglomerate. The family office, based in Rijssen in the eastern Netherlands, operates as the family's primary investment vehicle. CEO Henry Holterman has served on the boards of both VolkerWessels and Reggeborgh, anchoring the office's governance within the family's industrial roots. The group maintains a deliberately low public profile, consistent with northern European family-office norms. The firm invests across private equity, real estate, and infrastructure, with a clear preference for direct stakes and long-duration holds. Its portfolio history includes significant financial-sector positions: Reggeborgh was a co-shareholder alongside J.C. Flowers & Co. in NIBC Bank, and the two largest private shareholders agreed to sell their combined stakes in September 2023 (per public record, 2023). In a more recent transaction completed in July 2025, ING Group acquired Reggeborgh's 17.6% stake in Van Lanschot Kempen. The firm's geographic focus is concentrated in Europe, and it tags Energy Transition & Renewables, Healthcare Services, and Cybersecurity as active sector interests. Its investment structures span direct co-investments and special-purpose vehicles. Team scale is not publicly disclosed, but board interlocks trace a network into Dutch blue-chip industrials. Henry Holterman has held supervisory board positions at Wolters Kluwer and Océ. Advisors to the group have included former Telstra chairman John P. Mullen and Telstra non-executive director Niek Jan van Damme. Through family principal Inge Wessels, Reggeborgh supports Stichting WensAmbulance Oost-Nederland, a wish-granting ambulance charity. In July 2025, the firm closed the sale of its Van Lanschot Kempen stake to ING Group, converting a legacy financial holding into liquidity that signals a potential reallocation phase. Reggeborgh operates with the structural advantage of permanent family capital — no external LP constraints, no fixed deployment windows. That architecture lets it hold positions through full cycles, a posture visible in multi-decade relationships like the co-investor link to Johannesburg Consolidated Investments dating to 1970. Succession governance runs through the Wessels family and Holterman's dual board seats, binding the investment office tightly to the operating-company legacy rather than spinning it off as a standalone asset manager.