About Atradius Singapore

Michael Frigo was appointed Managing Director of Atradius for South East Asia in 2015. He is responsible for the Group’s offices, commercial activities and co-operation partnerships in Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Vietnam. Prior to this, Michael was Atradius Singapore’s Country Manager where his work included overall responsibility for the local operations and expansion into the wider region.

Michael joined Atradius in 2008 as Senior Underwriting Manager in Singapore after a decade with Bank of New Zealand and National Australia Bank in Melbourne, Australia, where he specialised in cashflow lending and project finance. After joining Atradius he was instrumental in the migration of the South East Asian Risk Underwriting function from the Atradius Sydney office to Singapore, as well as managing the Japan Underwriting team.

Maria Sandhu was appointed the role of Country Manager in May 2020. Maria is responsible for identifying and implementing business development strategies as well as nurturing customer relationships to advance strategic goals in the Singapore market.

Maria joined Atradius UK in Cardiff back in the year 2000. Since then, she has developed a deep understanding of Atradius business through working in multiple roles, including risk underwriting, project management and the Special Products line of business. Prior to her current role, Maria was the Head of Risk Underwriting for Special Products business in Singapore. The Special Product function specialises in providing tailor-made solutions outside the framework of the usual whole turnover credit insurance policies for longer tenor business and worldwide risks.

Maria completed her academic education in the UK and holds a BSc in Business Administration as well as an MBA.

Quintus Deken, as the Regional Head of Atradius Collections in Asia Pacific and Middle East, is responsible for managing Collections operations, sales and regional expansion of the business across Asia and Oceania. He joined Atradius Collections as the Country Manager for Singapore and South East Asia in January 2018 and was subsequently promoted to his current position in January 2020.

Quintus started his career as a debt collector at a collections agency part of ING Group N.V. in the Netherlands. He then joined Randstad Nederland B.V. as a Team Leader within the Credit Management department. He then re-joined the ING Group N.V. and held several leadership roles within the Commercial and Legal Collections Department of ING’s factoring division. Prior to joining Atradius Collections, Quintus worked for Aon Netherlands as Trade Credit Consultant and was promoted to Head of Trade Credit for Aon in Hong Kong in 2012.

Quintus holds a bachelor degree in Management Economics and Law from the Amsterdam Business School.