Rob van Laerhoven

CFO @ Royal Avebe

About

• CFO / Finance Director with strong business focus in retail and foodservice / B2C / B2B / Private Equity. • Sectors: Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) market, Agriculture, Transporation and Machinery business / Medical. • Strong business partner, very much involved in Strategic plans, Annual plans and daily business. • Managed substantial change related to the business, finance, tax, risk management, legal and IT. • Has brought business back into control and has managed business into strong growth. • Managed tax optimisation projects (f.e. Principal model) • Refinancing of the company • Process driven and sucessfully impemented preformance management within difference environments. • Is used to working in an international environment. Fluent in Dutch (native language), English and German. • Is used to work in Corporate environments, but also in Private Equity and Family owned companies. • Strong people manager: empowers, develops and coaches the people. Strong team builder. I have been working in different environments: - Marketing & sales units; - Manufacturing units - Supply chain - Head Office - Audit I have had different (finance) roles in all areas: - CFO / Finance director - Commercial Controller - Manufacturing Controller - Corporate controlling - Financial Services (GL, AR, AP) - Project leader - Manager customer service department - Mergers & Acquistions Managing teams upto 140 employees. Succesfull implementing and optimizing ERP systems within different organisations. Strong IT experience (SAP R3, SAP CRM, SAP SAC, BW SAP Ariba, Hyperion, Accountview, Basware).

Country

Netherlands

City

Epe

Industry

Food Production

Skill

Ondernemingszin, Sustainable Agriculture, Organizational Leadership, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), Financial Planning, Controlling, SAP, ERP, SAP R/3, FMCG, Supply Chain, SAP BW, Financial Reporting, Budgeting, Financial Management, Financial Control, Coaching, Forecasting, Change Management, Financial Analysis

Experience

CFO

Royal Avebe

2017-5 - Present · 9 yrs 5 mos

Groningen / Veendam

Avebe is een internationaal bedrijf met een omzet van € 800 mln en 1.300 medewerkers in de voedings en industriële ingrediënten business. Avebe heeft productielocaties in Nederland, Duitsland en Zweden. Het is een marktgerichte coöperatie van ruim 2.000 telers van zetmeelaardappelen uit Nederland en Duitsland. Avebe is wereldmarktleider op het gebied van aardappelzetmeel en aardappeleiwit en richt zich op de productie en vermarkting van kwalitatief hoogwaardige voedings- en industriële ingrediënten door gebruik te maken van moderne, innovatieve technieken.

CFO Europe

Phillips Medisize

2013-2 - 2017-4 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Hillegom

Phillips Medisize Corporation (PM) is company with a turnover of USD 700 million, employing over 4300 people in 17 locations throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico and China. PM was first owned by Private Equity company Kohlberg and from 2014, owned by Private Equity company Golden Gate. On 26 October 2016 the company was aquired by Molex, a global manufacturer of complete interconnect solutions. Molex is part of Koch Industries. PM is a leading designer and manufacturer of highly engineered finished devices, sub-assemblies, and components that are primarily developed and manufactured for medical end market applications. PM offers a broad range of pre-production and production services that enable the Company to partner with its customers throughout all stages of the product lifecycle – from product design, engineering, and prototyping through injection-molded manufacturing, supply chain management, and post-molding finishing services. The European organisation consists out of 6 factories and approximately 1.100 employees.

Owner / Director

Baten BV

2012-6 - 2013-2 · 9 mos

Supporting corporate & family owned companies in Senior Finance Roles: - Bringing companies back into control. - Managing the finance team. - Building a new management information system. - Optimize the IT/ERP system. - Risk analyses. - Setting up a new tax and legal structure.

CFO of Douwe Egberts Out of Home Netherlands

JDE Peet's

2007-12 - 2012-5 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Financial responsible for DECS NL (large foodservice organisation with 1.100 FTE's) and also responsible for the Customer Care Centre of DECS NL. Total of 140 people are reporting into me. IT responsible for SAP R3 and SAP CRM In the last 3 year DECS NL has implemented SAP CRM

Finance Director Manufacturing

Hillshire Brands

2004-11 - 2007-11 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Utrecht Area, Netherlands

Gross sales € 6.3 billion. Financial responsibilitiy for 19 factories worldwide (12 Coffee and Tea factories & 7 Household and Bodycare factories). Reporting into CFO Coffee & Tea and functional line into Vice President Supply Chain / Operations. Managing a team of 50 finance professionals, who are located at the production sites. Project member of divestment team of Duyvis

Finance Director Planning and Control

FrieslandCampina

2002-10 - 2004-10 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Woerden

• € 800 million turnover, 1.200 employees, 8 factories Responsible for Marketing & Sales Controlling, Operations & Logistics Controlling and Investment Controlling • Responsible for Operational Budget / Investments / Forecast process • Responsible for Management information on MT-level (Marketing & Sales reporting, Operations reporting, Fixed cost reporting, Investment reporting) • Managing a team of 7 employees and functional managing of 6 plant controllers • Direct Report of Financial Director Campina Nederland, who reports into CFO Campina

Finance Director Campina UK

FrieslandCampina

2000-5 - 2002-10 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Financial responsible for Campina UK (turnover GBP 75 mio) Internal and external reporting Upgrading SAP R3 Strong involvement in 2 M&A projects of which 1 was succesfull (buying a brand)