Joost van Houten

As Chief Growth Officer with Fenergo, Joost is responsible for unifying the firm’s strategic direction and progressively improving Fenergo’s ability to unlock new growth and scale.

Formerly, he founded and led Sentinels as CEO, a high-growth SaaS company building Transaction Monitoring and Screening solutions to detect financial crime patterns (acquired by Fenergo in 2022). Under his leadership, the startup underwent successful funding rounds and consistent >3x growth year-on-year.

Joost has previously held roles in strategy consulting at McKinsey & Company and ran an e-commerce startup. He is passionate about solving a big world problem, and developing a novel way to do so, with the aim to disrupt industry.

Joost holds a Master’s in Management of Innovation from Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands, where he graduated with high honours.