Supervisory Board

Mr. Servaas L.M. Houtakkers (1959, Dutch, male), Chairman Supervisory Board (since August 2005)
Mr. Houtakkers graduated from Nijmegen University and started his professional career as a corporate lawyer at Hendrix International, now better known as Nutreco NV, before moving to the legal department of MeesPierson NV in Amsterdam. In the early 1990s, he pioneered the banking and trust activities of MeesPierson in Belgium, before being appointed Managing Director of MeesPierson Trust Luxembourg in 1994, and subsequently Managing Director of MeesPierson (Luxembourg) Banquiers. After a brief appointment as Chief Operating Officer of EASDAQ NV/SA, he returned to Amsterdam in 1998 to continue his career at Merrill Lynch NV. In 2001, he was appointed managing partner with a Brussels-based corporate services company which was later sold to an international trust company. Mr. Houtakkers has been active as a corporate consultant since January 2005. He is a member of the advisory board of Greening International Partners and was a member of the managing board of Burani Designer Holding BV until February 2007. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Prolion Holding NV from 2002 until September 2004, and of Interbanca International Holding SA from 2003 until March 2005.
 

Mr. Henk Huisman (1944, Dutch, male), Member Supervisory Board (since May 2009) 
Mr. Huisman worked from the mid-sixties till his retirement in 2002 in the IT industry, fulfilling several positions at management level within Dutch and international companies. During the last ten years before his retirement, Mr. Huisman was a member of the Executive Board of PinkRoccade. In addition to his position as consultant, Mr. Huisman is also a member of the Supervisory Board of ConQuaestor B.V. and Total Specific Solutions B.V.
 

Mr. Dirk Lindenbergh (1949, Dutch, male), Member Supervisory Board (since January 2009)
Mr. Lindenbergh has been an entrepreneur throughout his career, founding an international operating business in the gaming industry which he later, in 2000, sold to ABN Amro equity and NPM Capital. He continued as board member for the newly formed company for another six years.

Mr. Lindenbergh studied philosophy part-time at Groningen University, and Business Valuation at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also a graduate in Business Administration from Nyenrode University. In 2004, he followed the Advanced Management Program at Nyenrode University and returned in 2005 to follow a strategic course for non-executive board members. He has been a member of the board of Docdata N.V. since 2006, joined the board of Midlin N.V. in 2007, and in 2008 became board member at Astor Participaties (Private equity). In 2009 he joined the non-executive board of BE Semiconductor Industries N.V.

Mr. Lindenbergh is a shareholder of the Company since fall 2007. Mr. Lindenbergh indirectly holds over 10% of the shares in the Company and is, as such, not independent according to the Dutch Corporate Governance Code.

 

Board of Directors

Mr. Pieter Aarts (1967, Dutch, male), Chairman of the Board of Directors (since January 2009)

Mr. Aarts graduated from the Technical University Eindhoven (NL) in 1989 before obtaining a Master in Business Administration from Kingston University in London (UK). He started his professional career in 1989 with one of the PinkRoccade Group subsidiaries as a consultant in logistics. In 1994, Mr. Aarts was made Managing Director of PinkRoccade Industry, and continued in various Managing and Executive positions, including member of the Board of Directors, within PinkRoccade until 2004. He then moved to Hewlett-Packard Netherlands as member of the Board of Directors before continuing as an interim manager for companies such as Inter Access and Ordina. Since 2002, Mr. Aarts has held a number of advisory management positions with a variety of organizations, mainly in the ICT industry.

Mr. Jan-Hein Pullens (1972, Dutch, male), Member of the Board of Directors (since January 2009)

Mr. Pullens graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht in 1997 having already started his professional career in the previous year as an Account Manager in the software industry. He was then recruited by Unisys Netherlands where he held various management and sales executive positions within Unisys’ Global Industry and Global Infrastructure divisions. In 2004, Mr. Pullens became Division Director for Outsourcing at Inter Access, where he led the development and growth of this new division. Three years later, in 2007, he joined Hewlett-Packard’s EMEA Strategic Outsourcing team as an Engagement Lead focusing on the large international IT outsourcing deals. Since 2005, Mr. Pullens has held various advisory management positions with a number of organizations.