20.10.2017

New CEO and CFO for Mammoet

Dutch international crane and heavy lift company Mammoet has made a number of changes to its executive management board.

They include the appointment of Paul van Gelder as chief executive and Kees Voormolen as chief financial officer.

Current chief executive Jan Kleijn has taken up a new role of chief operating officer, replacing Victor Aquina. The current chief financial officer Onno den Boer has moved to a new job at Mammoet parent SHV Holdings.
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The new Mammoet board (L-R) Martijn Roelants, Paul van Gelder, Jan Kleijn and Kees Voormolen

van Gelder joins Mammoet from SHV owned industrial service provider Eriks where he has been a main board director for the past year and a half, having worked with SHV as a main board consultant from the start of 2016, moving to Eriks two months later. Prior to his time with SHV he spent two years as a board member of publicly quoted technical services company Royal Imtech, which he joined in 2013 from gas distribution company Gasunie – where he was chief executive for three years.
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Paul van Gelder

He began his industrial career as director of logistics at Driessen-Zodiac Aerospace in 2004, following 11 years as an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy. In 2006 he moved to BP as maintenance manager, joining energy company TAQA after a year or so as project director for the start up phase of an underground gas storage project and became managing director of TAQA Energy a year later, moving to Gasunie in 2010.

New chief financial officer Voormolen joins Mammoet from hydraulic power and control systems company DGI, where he has held a similar role since 2015. Prior to that he was chief financial officer of Bluewater Energy Services for 15 years. Prior to DGI he spent three years with contractor Boskalis as manager of project finance. He started out in 1988 as manager of mergers and acquisitions at the airline KLM, leaving in 1993 to join oilfield services provider Western Atlas as treasurer of European operations, moving to Boskalis in 1996.
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Kees Voormolen

The new appointees will join chief people officer Martijn Roelants to make up the executive board.

van Gelder said: “Over the last six years, following a decade of strong growth, Jan Kleijn has effectively consolidated the company. Now, with this new board, we have strengthened our expertise and leadership capacities, ready to drive the business forward in a competitive market. I am happy that Jan will continue to be part of the transformation - leading our operations, marketing and sales efforts. Mammoet is facing more competition than ever, yet we also see a lot of growth opportunities. Therefore, we are rethinking our focus and market approach in every region of the world.”

Kleijn added: “In the first decade of this century, Mammoet grew exponentially - from a little under 1,000 employees to over 5,000. In the past six years we devoted a lot of energy to consolidation after becoming the global market leader at an incredible pace. It was a privilege to lead this process. Now we are entering a new era, refocusing our strategy by building on our history of excellence and entrepreneurship. I am excited to be part of this process and look forward to help shape the changes ahead.”