6.1
Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board consists of the following members:

From left to right: Mr. P.B. (Peter) Ernsting, Mr. A.J. (Ab) Pasman and Mr. J. (Jan) van den Belt.
 

Mr. A.J. (Ab) Pasman (1950)

Chairman
Mr. Pasman (Dutch nationality) was appointed to the Supervisory Board and as Chairman of same on 22 April 2010. Mr. Pasman was a member of the Board of Directors of Koninklijke Grolsch N.V. from 2003 to 2008 and was appointed chairman of said board in 2004. He is a member of the Supervisory Boards of the following companies: Berenschot Holding B.V. and Westland Kaas Groep B.V. Mr. Pasman was reappointed in 2014. His term of office runs until the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders due to be held in the spring of 2018.

Mr. J. (Jan) van den Belt (1946)

Deputy chairman
Mr. Van den Belt (Dutch nationality) was appointed to the Supervisory Board on 20 April 2006. He was CFO and member of the Board of Directors of Océ N.V. until the end of October 2008. Mr. Van den Belt is a member of the Supervisory Boards of Attero Holding N.V., N.V. Holmatro, as well as a member of the Executive Board of Stichting Continuïteit Ahold Delhaize. In addition, he was a (deputy) member of the Enterprise Chamber of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal until June 2016. Mr. Van den Belt qualifies as an expert in the field of financial reporting and the auditing of financial statements as meant in article 2, section 3 of the Resolution to install an audit committee. Mr. Van den Belt was reappointed in 2010 and 2014. Mr. Van den Belt’s (final) term of office runs until the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders due to be held in the spring of 2018.

Mr. P.B. (Peter) Ernsting (1958)

Mr. Ernsting (Dutch nationality) was appointed to the Supervisory Board at the General Meeting of Shareholders of 28 April 2011. Mr. Ernsting was appointed at the nomination of the Supervisory Board after a recommendation from the Central Works Council. Mr. Ernsting was until December 2016 Senior Vice President, Group Supply Chain, and member of the Executive Committee at Carlsberg. Mr. Ernsting previously held a number of management positions at Unilever N.V., both in the Netherlands and abroad. Mr. Ernsting was reappointed in 2015. Mr. Ernsting’s term of office runs until the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders due to be held in the spring of 2019.