Board/Management Information • Jun 27, 2024
Board/Management Information
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PRESS RELEASE
Today, ACOMO N.V. (Acomo), the Euronext Amsterdam-listed diversified, plant-based food ingredients Group, announces that it has appointed Mirjam van Thiel (45, photo) as Group CFO as per 1 October 2024. The Board will also propose her appointment as Executive Director and member of the Board to shareholders at an extraordinary shareholders' meeting to be held soon after she joins the company.
Mirjam van Thiel is currently Finance Director Americas for Friesland Campina where she has worked since 2015, also as Finance Director Malaysia and Finance Director Philippines. From 2002 to 2015, she worked for HJ Heinz in various Business Planning, Finance and Control senior management positions in the Netherlands, France, Indonesia and Australia. Mirjam holds an Executive Master of Finance & Control (NIVRA – Nyenrode University), a Master's degree in Financial Management (Nyenrode University) and a Bachelor's degree at Hogeschool Utrecht (majors: Finance, Economics and Law).
Bernard Stuivinga, Non-Executive director and Chairman of the Board is very pleased that Mirjam will join as Group CFO and will team up with Executive Director and Group CEO Allard Goldschmeding: "We welcome Mirjam and wish her success in her new role. Apart from her impressive international experiences and leadership track record, she is a global citizen who understands the food business and also knows what it takes to manage product and geopolitical volatility, and to co-operate with so many different nationalities and cultures in a globally active and locally engaged organization like ours."
Mirjam van Thiel added: "I am passionate about the food business and excited to become part of Acomo whose group companies, without exception, play such an important role in the supply of plant-based food and ingredients to customers around the globe. And for that reason, I very much look forward to closely working together with the Managing Directors and Finance Directors of the group companies and their respective teams to further grow the business together in line with the group's strategy."
Mirjam van Thiel is a Dutch national, married with four children, and currently works and lives in the US with her family. She will relocate to the Netherlands before 1 October 2024.
At this moment the Acomo Board consists of the following members: Bernard Stuivinga, Non-Executive Chair; Jan Niessen, Non-Executive Director; Machtelt Groothuis, Non-Executive Director; Victoria van der Putte, Non-Executive Director; Allard Goldschmeding, Executive Director and Group CEO.
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Acomo (ACOMO N.V.), the Euronext Amsterdam-listed diversified, plant-based food ingredients Group has appointed Mirjam van Thiel (45, photo) as Group CFO as per 1 October 2024, and will also propose her appointment as Executive Director and member of the Board to shareholders.
For further information, please contact:
Mr A.W. Goldschmeding WTC, Beursplein 37 3011 AA Rotterdam The Netherlands
[email protected] Tel. +31 10 4051195
www.acomo.nl
Mr F.J.M. Witte, spokesperson Sophialaan 43 1075 BM Amsterdam The Netherlands
[email protected] Tel. +31 20 4525225
www.creativevenue.nl
ACOMO N.V. is an international group with as its principal business the sourcing, trading, treatment, processing, packaging, and distribution of conventional and organic plant-based food ingredients. Our main trading subsidiaries are Catz International B.V. in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (spices and food raw materials), The Organic Corporation B.V. in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Tradin Organics USA LLC in Aptos, USA (organic ingredients), Royal Van Rees Group B.V. in Rotterdam, the Netherlands (tea), Red River Commodities Inc. in Fargo, USA, Red River Global Ingredients Ltd. in Winkler, Canada, Red River-van Eck B.V. in Etten-Leur, the Netherlands, Food Ingredients Service Center Europe B.V. in Etten-Leur, the Netherlands, and SIGCO Warenhandelsgesellschaft mbH in Hamburg, Germany (edible seeds), King Nuts B.V. in Bodegraven, Delinuts B.V. in Ede, and Tovano B.V. in Maasdijk, the Netherlands (nuts), and Snick EuroIngredients N.V. in Ruddervoorde, Belgium (food solutions). Acomo shares have been traded on Euronext Amsterdam since 1908.
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