Peter Fruitema
Founding Partner and Director
Peter embarked on his professional journey in the market data industry back in 1985 as a management trainee with ABN, swiftly transitioning to a role as a market data consumer. In 1986, he assumed the position of Sales Executive Europe at Datastream International, where he collaborated closely with Kees Brooimans to cater to clients across continental Europe.
In 1989, Peter engaged in reselling Stockdata before co-founding Screen Group alongside Kees Brooimans in 1989. Over the past three decades, Screen Group has emerged as a premier boutique firm, specializing in market and reference data advisory services for the Financial Services sector.
Peter has been instrumental in steering the product and business development of INFOmatch, Screen’s flagship spend and inventory management solution for market data services, now adopted by over 100 end-user firms globally. In 2018, the acquisition of the Screen Group, encompassing Screen Consultants, Screen INFOmatch, and Screen Markets, by TRG led to the formation of TRG Screen, a prominent provider of market data management solutions worldwide.
Beyond his professional endeavors, Peter is a family man and is an avid sports enthusiast. Following an active hockey career, he has developed a passion for golf, tennis, and sailing. For Peter, sports present challenges akin to those encountered in his professional life: striving for excellence while relishing the experience.
Kees Brooimans
Founding Partner and Director
Kees started his career in the market data industry as a trader in Fixed Income Derivative products. Following that he worked for Datastream Financial (now part of Refinitiv) as account executive and later on as sales manager for Europe. In 1989 he founded together with Peter Fruitema Screen Consultants. For more than 30 years now Screen Consultants has been one of the world’s leading boutique firms that specializes on market & reference data advisory services for the Financial Services industry. Through the Screen label we have serviced more than 800 Buy and Sell side end user firms in more than 30 countries worldwide. In 2018 the Screen Group (with the labels Screen Consultants, Screen INFOmatch and Screen Markets) was acquired by TRG and the combined company now is called TRG Screen and is the world’s leading market data management solutions provider.
Kees loves sports. Tennis, padel, golf and he is also a spinning instructor. His favorite sport however is cycling. Race bike and MTB. He has climbed many of the mountains known from Tour de France, Vuelta and Giro. Favorite climbs are Galibier, Mont Ventoux and of course the Stelvio in Northern Italy. Cycling is a sport that forces you to get the best out of yourself. Something that we all need to do in our day to day lives and in the business in which we operate.
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever“
Albert Vliegen
Founding Partner and Director
Albert is a true international professional, who started his career working for Stockdata and Dow Jones Telerate (now Refinitiv) in BeNeLux, Germany, UK and several eastern European countries. He has over 30 years of experience in building and accelerating business in the European Market Data / Financial IT industry. Between 1999 and 2018 as exclusive Sales and Consultancy Partner of Screen Consultants and INFOmatch in Germany.
Albert has built a powerful track record in exploring new markets for several innovative IT players. As manager in market data optimization projects – in successful cooperation with Peter & Kees in their previous positions – he helped many financial institutions achieve sustainable cost savings. His background in Law helped build a strong reputation in negotiating better Vendor agreements.
Albert is an excellent multilingual communicator, capable of establishing positive working relationships at all levels.
In his sparetime he loves to play tennis, hit the skislopes and climb testing mountains. 2019 Mardi Himal (5587m) in Nepal and 2020 Allalinhorn (4027m) in CH. Planning, fitness, perseverance and comradery are key to reach the summit. Elements that also play an important role in day to day business life.