For Parents Expat Career Day

Simone Betz has held the role of Chief Human Resources Officer for the US at ABN AMRO for the last ten years. ABN AMRO is a Dutch corporate bank with its US headquarters in New York City. In this capacity she is responsible for defining and executing all elements of the People Strategy, including Talent Acquisition and Retention and Strategic Workforce Planning.

Prior to this Simone was VP of HR for HSH Nordbank, a niche investment bank, during which time she was responsible for a talent upgrade initiative resulting in significant headcount increases. Simone spent the first ten years of her career in various roles at Deutsche Bank, a German bulge bracket bank, both in the US as well as in Frankfurt. During that time, among other things, Simone was responsible for the International Expat Program between the Amer- icas and Germany. Within this program she devised the intercultural training curriculum that was to become a pre requisite for expats prior to start of their assignment starts..

Simone is originally from Worms, Germany and relocated to the US at the age of 6. She gradu- ated from the State University of New York at Plattsburg with a Bachelor in International Busi- ness and recently completed the Human Resources Executive Education Program at Harvard University.