Board Director
Ton van der Laan, born in 1953, is a Dutch national residing in the Netherlands. He currently serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Royal de Heus, a global feed company and Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rainforest Alliance in New York. He is a non-executive board member of Dümmen Orange, a company active in flower and plant genetics, and a board member of the United Feed Company in Saudi Arabia.
Van der Laan has extensive experience from several executive roles in the food, feed and commodity industries. He is the former CEO of Nidera, a company globally active in financing and distribution of grains and oilseeds. Before that he was responsible as Executive Vice President for Cargill Animal Proteins and Animal Nutrition globally and CEO of Provimi in the Netherlands, one of the global leaders in animal nutrition.
Previously, for over 22 years, van der Laan held several executive roles at Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer food company, where he was located in the Netherlands, UK, Czech Republic and Slovakia. He has also served as Managing Director of Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care. Van der Laan possesses extensive experience in multi-national businesses, strategic planning, portfolio management, acquisitions and company restructuring, large- and small -scale integrations and top team development.
Van der Laan was elected to the Board of Directors of Marel in 2019. He is a member of the Audit Committee.
Van der Laan has no conflict of interest links with
Education
- MS, Mechanical Engineering, Twente University
- Executive Course, Harvard Business School
- New Board Program, Nyenrode Business University
Board of directors
- Board Director since 2019
Sub-committees
- Audit committee
Holdings in Marel
- 0 (as of 30 August 2022)
