9. Nico Nusmeier (Dutch; 1961)
Regional President Central and Eastern Europe
Joined Heineken in 1985 as a management trainee and
graduated as a master brewer in 1988. Since then he has held
various management positions within Heineken in many parts
of the world. In 2001 he was appointed Managing Director of
Grupa Zywiec in Poland and Regional President in 2005.
10. Sean O'Neill (British; 1963)
Group Corporate Relations Director
Joined Heineken in 2004 following eight years in senior roles
within the alcoholic beverages sector. Prior to this, he held
management roles with a global communication and corporate
affairs consultancy based in the UK, Russia, the Middle East
and Australia. In 2005 he was appointed Group Corporate
Relations Director.
11. Stefan Orlowski (Polish/Australian; 1966)
Group Commerce Director
Joined Heineken in 1998, working as Vice-President Managing
Director of Grupa Zywiec. From 2003 to 2006, he was Chief
Operating Officer, first of Brau Union AG and as of 2005, of
Central and Eastern Europe (C&EE) with direct responsibility
as Managing Director Central Europe for the Central European
markets and for Marketing, Sales and Distribution of C&EE. In
October 2007 he was appointed Group Commerce Director.
12. Floris van Woerkom (Dutch; 1963)
Group Control and Accounting Director
Joined Heineken in 2005 as Group Control Accounting
Director, after having worked with Unilever for 18 years, where
he held various international positions including Finance Director
in Mexico and regional Vice-President Finance in Latin America.
(Regional Presidents and Group Directors are shown in
alphabetical order).
Photograph location:
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3. Didier Debrosse (French; 1956)
Regional President Western Europe
Marketing Manager,
Suchard, where he had
linted General Manager
;ame Managing Director
4. Marc Gross (French; 1958)
Group Supply Chain Director
n 1999 he became Regional Technical
Europe. In 2002 he became Managing
ipply. Prior to joining Heineken, he held
rnational food and consumer businesses.
5. Siep Hiemstra (Dutch; 1955)
Regional President Asia Pacific
ious commercial and logistic
ry Manager of Heineken Export
he held various management
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Director of Heineken Technical
6. Tom de Man (Dutch; 1948)
Regional President Africa and the Middle East
Joined Heineken Technical Services in 1971. Following this, he
held various management positions in Singapore, Korea, Japan,
Nigeria and Italy. From 1992, he was Group Production Policy
Control Director. In 2003 he was appointed Managing Director
of Heineken's operations in Sub-Saharan Africa and Regional
President in 2005.
7. Frans van der Minne (Dutch; 1948)
Group Human Resources Director
Joined Heineken in 1975 in sales. He held various management
positions in the export organisation. In 1988 he was appointed
General Manager of the Murphy Brewery, Ireland. In 1989 he
became Director of Heineken Export and in 1999 he became
Director of Central and Eastern Europe. He was appointed
President of Heineken USA in 2000 and became Group Human
Resources Director in 2005.
8. John Nicolson (British; 1953)
Regional President Americas
Entered the beer industry in 1993 through Foster's Brewing
Group as Group Executive Director of the Courage business.
In 1995, Scottish Newcastle acquired the Courage business
and he took up the role of Group Marketing Director. From
2000 until April 2008, John was an Executive Board member
of S&N pic. In October 2008 he was appointed Regional
President with Heineken.
