that's named after me*.
What is your favourite beer?
Timoney: I've always liked imported beers. Heineken really is my
favourite beer. I also like Amstel and Zipfer.
Zeleznikova: Almaza is now my favourite beer but closely challenged
by my home country brand Zlaty Bazant.
Plantenga: In addition to Heineken, I like Star and Mützig.
Peters: Brand Imperator.
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Zuzana Zeleznikova: I joined Heineken Slovensko from Coca-Cola
twelve years ago as National Sales Manager, and a few years
later became Marketing Manager. From 2003 I was responsible
for both sales and marketing as Commercial Director. In 2006
I took over Heineken Slovensko's distribution organisation.
Currently I am General Manager at Brasserie Almaza in Lebanon.
Maggie Timoney: I'm Irish, but I studied in the USA, doing
my BA and MBA at lona College in New York. After studying I
started working for Gallo Winery in sales. After that I worked
for an Anheuser-Busch distributor in New York. I started in the
Heineken world at Heineken USA, before moving to Heineken
Export in Schiphol. More recently I have worked at Heineken
International in Amsterdam, where I was Manager Channel
Sales Distribution, before transferring to Canada as Country
Manager.
Monique Peters: I joined Heineken in 1992 as Marketing Manager
Heineken Netherlands after seven years at another fast moving
consumer goods business. My next main steps were: Country
Manager UK, Business Coordinating Manager North and Eastern
Europe, Business Development Manager North and Eastern
Europe, and General Manager in New Caledonia. Today I am
General Manager of Croatia, with additional responsibility for
Bosnia.
Door Plantenga: I started at Heineken Netherlands straight
after my MBA in 1985. After two years I was appointed as Sales
Manager Off Trade, then Sales Manager Horeca - On Trade - the
first woman in this job in the history of Heineken Netherlands.
I then became Regional Director Horeca in The Hague area,
again the first woman in the job. Between 1991 and 1996 I was
in Botswana, where my husband was a medical superintendent.
Back in Holland in 1996,1 returned to Heineken, this time at HQ
in the Marketing Department, where I became Horeca (On Trade)
Development Manager, and then went to Ghana as Commercial
Director. I'm now General Manager in Rwanda.
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