About Us
About us
Founded in 2014, Quantessence aims to help financial institutions benefit from new technology in the savings market by providing flexible support in a world class infrastructure, taking care of technology and operations and reducing the time to market.
The company is part of the Euroclear Group and brings together experienced financial experts and world class hub developers. Quantessence has operations in the UK and continental Europe.
The company is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.

Euroclear is a market-owned international infrastructure, which aims to strengthen the world’s capital markets by providing leading and secure pre-and post-trade services. Euroclear currently holds over 28 trillion euro assets for clients in over 90 countries.
Rated AA- by Fitch and AA by Standard & Poor’s.
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Pierre Yves Goemans
Chairman of the Board
Pierre Yves Goemans chairs the board of Quantessence, representing Euroclear.
Previously, he was head of commercial, in charge of worldwide commercial development, marketing, client administration and client-related IT projects rollout at Group level. Pierre Yves joined Euroclear in 2005 to run product management for the group. He was responsible for selecting markets, instruments and client types as well as Euroclear’s pricing policy.
Prior to joining Euroclear, Pierre-Yves fulfilled senior positions in the asset management industry. Initially at Fortis Investment Management where he was member of the management committee, and subsequently at Invesco where Pierre Yves was head of business development for Western Europe and country manager for France. Pierre Yves started his career in global markets at JPMorgan in 1986 and worked for McKinsey from 1989 to 1994.
Pierre Yves is a civil engineer from the Université Catholique de Louvain where he has also obtained a postgraduate degree in management with Highest Honours. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Email: pierreyves.goemans@euroclear.com

Cécile Van Hentenryck
Director
Cécile Van Hentenryck serves as a non-executive director on the board of Quantessence, representing Euroclear.
Cecile is a Corporate Finance Director at Euroclear heading company emerging business initiatives. She holds in this capacity various positions as Chief Financial Officer and Board mandates in the group. Before joining Euroclear in 2008, she worked during 8 years at PwC in financial audit services and M&A advisory services in Belgium and Canada.
Cecile holds a Master degree, cum laude, in Business Engineering from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management.

wim hautekiet
Director
Wim Hautekiet serves as non-executive director on the board of Quantessence.
Wim has been involved in finance law since 1984 as an Associate with Linklaters Belgium. Prior to re-joining J.P. Morgan, he was an Executive Vice President at BNY Mellon where he served as CEO of The Bank of New York Mellon SA/NV (Brussels) and before that as Deputy General Counsel for EMEA (London). He also served as General Counsel to Clearstream (Luxembourg) from 1998 until 2002, and was in private practice at the Brussels bar before that.
Wim holds a Lic. Iuris from the University of Leuven (Belgium) and a LL.M. from the University of Illinois (USA), as well as Postgraduate Diplomas in Financial Management from Solvay Business School (Belgium) and INSEAD (France). He is also a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (London).
Email: wim.hautekiet@quantessence.com

Peter De Clercq
Chief Executive Officer
Peter runs the company and is in charge of business development and sales. He sits on the Board and chairs the Management Committee.
Peter holds a Maîtrise en Administration et en Gestion (MBA) in finance from IAG at UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), as well as an MA in Philology from the University of Leuven (Belgium).
Email: peter.declercq@quantessence.com

Nikolaos Papadopoulos
Chief Operating Officer
Nikolaos runs the company’s operations and has architected its systems. He sits on the Board and heads the firm’s development centre in Prague.
Prior to joining Quantessence Nikolaos designed and implemented several innovative systems including automated testing systems, performance enhancing systems, integrated film and entertainment platforms, lead generating and predictive systems for the real-estate industry. He has conceptualized, designed and project managed many mission critical systems to upper echelon clientele including P&G Europe, P&G Americas, ExxonMobil Europe and USA, Shell Netherlands Europe, Accenture France and UK, Price Waterhouse Coopers, EDS Australia and US (Plano – Texas).
Nikolaos has an MBA from Melbourne Business School, an Honors degree in Civil Engineering, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science all from the University of Melbourne.
Email: nikolaos.papadopoulos@quantessence.com

Michelle Thresh
Compliance Officer
Michelle runs compliance for the firm, reporting directly to the Board. Michelle also takes care of the firm’s business management.
Email: michelle.thresh@quantessence.com