Board of Directors

 

CHAIRMAN 

Bart Van Malderen 

Non-Executive Director and Reference Shareholder 

CEO

Jan Van Geet 

Executive Director and Reference Shareholder 

DIRECTORS

Ann Gaeremynck

Non-Executive (Independent) Director

 

Chris Morrish

Non-Executive (Independent) Director

 

Vera Gäde-Butzlaff

Non-Executive (Independent) Director

 

BART VAN MALDEREN

Mr Bart Van Malderen (Belgian) is CEO and founder of Drylock Technologies. Drylock Technologies, founded in 2011 and based in Zele, Belgium, is a manufacturer of personal hygiene products, owning nine production plants and employing more than 2,500 people worldwide. Prior to this Bart Van Malderen held different management positions at Ontex, a leading European manufacturer of hygienic disposable products where he became CEO in 1996 and Chairman of the Board in 2003.

JAN VAN GEET 

Jan Van Geet is the founder of VGP. He has overall daily as well as strategic management responsibilities of the Group. He started in the Czech Republic in 1993 and was manager of Ontex in Turnov, a producer of hygienic disposables. Until 2005, he was also managing director of WDP Czech Republic. WDP is a Belgian real estate investment trust.

ANN GAEREMYNCK

Mrs. Ann Gaeremynck (Belgian) is full professor of Accounting and Governance at the KULeuven, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Since April 2017 she is member of the board and the audit committee of Retail Estates, a Belgian listed company which invests mainly in retail properties located in the periphery of residential areas or along access roads to urban centres. She currently is also a member of the board of directors and chair of the audit committee  the Vives, a university college of the Association KULeuven. In the past she fulfilled a position as an external member of the Audit Committee at the hospital AZ Delta.

VERA GÄDE-BUTZLAFF

Mrs. Vera Gäde-Butzlaff (German) was Assistant Secretary of State for the Environment and Agriculture at the Ministry for Regional Planning, Agriculture and the Environment of Saxony-Anhalt, from 2001 to 2002. In 2003 she became a member of the board of Berlin city cleaning and waste management companies (BSR), and she was appointed CEO from 2007 until 2014. From 2015 to 2018 she was CEO of GASAG AG, one of the largest regional German energy providers. Since April 2018 she is Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board of Vivantes, the hospital group.

CHRIS MORRISH

Mr. Chris Morrish currently is a Senior Advisor at FREO Group and previously served as Managing Director and Regional Head for Europe at GIC Real Estate, the real estate investment arm of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), where he oversaw European real estate investments and was a member of GIC RE's Global Investment Committee. Prior to joining GIC, Mr. Chris Morrish was Strategic Planning Director at Hammerson plc, a major UK Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), and Associate Director at Greycoat PLC, specializing in Central London office development. He began his career at Hillier Parker (now CBRE). Chris holds degrees from Pembroke College, Cambridge, and an MBA from City University, with additional studies at Stanford University. He was a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and has served on the Management Board of INREV and the Supervisory Board of the Investment Property Forum (IPF).