# Hendrik Schakel · Profile

Ondernemer · financieel advies & AI · hypotheken en financiële planning
Amsterdam, Netherlands · Mexico City, Mexico

## Positioning

Hendrik Schakel is an entrepreneur in financial advice. He works to make mortgage and financial-planning advice more accessible, more efficient and more client-friendly by combining advisory experience, advice quality and smart technology. He builds his own ventures and tools (a live financial-planning tool and an AI-agent architecture for automated mortgage advice) and works with entrepreneurs and decision-makers who want to move in the same direction. 20+ years in the field, co-founder of Viisi Hypotheken (2010–2026), CFP®.

## Expertise

- Mortgages & financial planning, since 2003: advice, intermediation, compliance, duty of care, product policy. CFP® and EFA.
- AI in financial advice: builds calculation tools, specialised agents, knowledge structures and decision rules, with checks against errors and hallucinations and a human as the final safeguard, within Wft and AVG.
- Strategy & entrepreneurship, co-founder of Viisi: from a kitchen table to 40 employees and ~2,000 clients per year.

## Proof

- 20+ years in mortgages and financial planning.
- Co-founder Viisi Hypotheken (2010–2026): 0 → 40 employees, ~2,000 clients/year, €6–7M annual revenue, FD Gazelle, Great Place to Work.
- 15 years as a columnist in FD, NRC, Trouw, Amweb and VVP.
- Built and launched a public financial-planning tool (benikfinancieelonafhankelijk.nl).
- Advisory Board member, Rentberry (proptech), 2026–present.

## Open to

Working with entrepreneurs, decision-makers and engineers on better, more accessible financial advice: a strategic project, the right person for an advisory board or non-executive role (commissariaat), or building a venture together. He works best where smart people pursue worthwhile goals. A free 30-minute introduction is the way to get in touch.

## Credentials & education

CFP® Certified Financial Planner (FFP) · Recognised Financial Advisor (EFA, SEH) · Dutch Wft qualifications (Mortgage, Pension, Wealth, Income, Basic). MSc Economics (cum laude) & MSc Chemistry, University of Amsterdam; Erasmus year at Freie Universität Berlin.

## Languages

Dutch (native), English (fluent), Spanish (fluent), German.

## Note

Information here is general and informational, not personalised financial advice under Dutch advisory rules (Wft).