Jan Derck van Karnebeek will join the company on June 1.
Royal FrieslandCampina N.V. appointed Jan Derck van Karnebeek as its new CEO. Van Karnebeek will join FrieslandCampina on June 1 and replace Hein Schumacher, who will join Unilever as CEO and leave FrieslandCampina on May 1.
Derck van Karnebeek is currently CEO of GreenV, the international operating group of companies active in the horticultural sector, which is a portfolio company of HAL Investments. Van Karnebeek spent almost his entire career at Heineken N.V. in commercial, marketing and general management positions. His professional journey at Heineken included jobs in the Netherlands, Hong Kong, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Austria and culminated in the position of Chief Commercial Officer and member of the Executive Team at the brewer’s international head office in Amsterdam from 2015 until 2021.