BLUE HARRIERMANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY
Independent advisor · Data · Risk · AI governance · Rotterdam
I’m Jeroen de Jong. For fifteen years I’ve helped large organisations turn data, risk and AI regulation into decisions a board can take and a team can deliver. Now I do it independently, as an advisor or as your interim lead.
The edit
noise removed
Holistic, end-to-end data transformation
Narrowed data lifecycle management (DMBOK principles) down to the 2 data products that mattered out of 200, each with its own governance, master, reference and metadata, and lineage.
Best-in-class governance frameworks
Early implementation of the data and reporting control roadmap (BCBS 239), spanning 40+ countries.
Leveraging AI to unlock value at pace
A semantic search engine that cut data delivery requests from weeks to hours, scaled from a Dutch pilot to a global project.
Harmonising the global risk landscape
Achieved one taxonomy and one library of risks, controls and key risk indicators (KRIs) for 28 countries. Then built modern risk practices around objectives and performance.
Accelerating time-to-value
Initiated continuous portfolio monitoring with a deliberately small scope, to deliver fast and scale later.
Services
three practices
Regulated organisations with a data, risk or AI problem that won’t stay solved. Banks and insurers first, plus the industrial and public-sector work from my consulting years.
Operating models, ownership, data quality and lineage that people follow after the consultants leave. I start from the few data elements your decisions actually depend on.
“Which of our data is critical, who owns it, and can we prove it’s right?”
Non-financial risk frameworks, controls and reporting built as an independent input to decision-making. From control design to the conversation with your supervisor.
“Our framework looks complete on paper. Why doesn’t anyone use it?”
AI controls, EU AI Act readiness and the delivery work to scale a promising pilot. I’ve taken three AI products from proof of concept to global rollout, so the governance I design is the kind delivery teams can live with.
“We have twelve pilots. How do we get two into production, safely?”
Assessments, roadmaps and second opinions. Short and sharp, before the regulator or the budget cycle forces the issue.
Programme manager or lead role when you need someone to own the outcome, run the delivery board and take the hard calls.
Selected work
2006 – 2026
200+ → 2Candidate reports narrowed
to confirmed scope
ING · Group-wide · 40 countries
I ran the group’s risk data control roadmap end to end, with the Chief Data Office, IT, independent validation and internal audit. We redesigned data and AI governance into a federated model so mandates stopped colliding.
weeks → hoursData-request turnaround
with semantic search
ING · Netherlands to global
I owned each roadmap from proof of concept to operational handover: data readiness, model development, integration and security across domains.
28 → 1Regional risk views
into one register
ING · Retail & Wholesale · 28 countries
I led the IBM OpenPages rollout across head office and 28 network countries. Local registers, taxonomies and control libraries became one comparable register with one reporting line.
In the same role I embedded the operational risk capital model across business lines, turning a periodic manual exercise into a repeatable, audit-ready routine.
€1m+Verified savings from
portfolio risk oversight
Atos Consulting · SNS Reaal · 2006 – 2010
Sales and delivery in one role, across financial services, industry and the public sector.
Approach
how a harrier hunts
Harriers search a field in slow, low sweeps and find their prey by ear as much as by sight. It’s a decent model for walking into an organisation.
A harrier working low over open ground. Head down, listening.
Methodical sweeps before any conclusion. Current state, target state and every line of defence.
The first weeks go to the people who own the problem: business, risk, audit, IT and, where it helps, the regulator.
Rank everything by regulatory and business impact. Most of the list is noise. We agree on what isn’t.
Deliver the few things that matter, embed them and hand them to an owner. I leave when it runs without me.
Record
twenty years, in order
Advisory and interim leadership in data, risk and AI governance.
Digital, data and AI strategy and portfolio. BCBS 239 programme. AI deployment.
Built the team. BI and AI roadmap. Board reporting for NL/BE risk governance.
GRC platform, capital model and risk oversight across four regions.
Origination and delivery across financial services, industry and public sector.
Risk management across a transformation portfolio.
DNB · AFM · ECB / JST
Collibra · Informatica · Databricks · Azure · IBM Knowledge Catalog · IBM Watson · IBM OpenPages · SAP GRC · Cognos · Power BI · ServiceNow
Dutch · English
Signal
notes & news
Notes are my own thinking on decisions, data, risk and AI. Signals are news worth knowing, with a line on why it matters.
Lately, I have read a lot of claims about improving decisions. None of them say how you would know. So I went back through my own cases, the ones where information genuinely changed a decision and the ones where it didn’t.
“It was where the information stood when the decision was made.”
Read the noteJane feeds the same savings question to three AI models and gets €300, €1,200 and €2,000 a month. All three are valid. So which one do you pick, and what does that say about the AI?
Read the note“Market demand is down 15%. Our growth assumption breaks.” The CEO says: “We’re staying the course.” The data gets filed. Not because executives aren’t smart, but because data alone doesn’t change minds.
Read the noteContact · Rotterdam, working across the Netherlands and Europe
A finding from the regulator. A programme that’s stuck. An AI pilot that won’t leave the lab. Send two lines and I’ll tell you straight whether I can help.
