Cees de Jong is new chairman of ForFarmers board
Dutch compound feed group, ForFarmers, has announced that Cooperative FromFarmers UA, as priority shareholder, has appointed Cees de Jong as new chairman of the ForFarmers Supervisory Board.
In that capacity, de Jong will succeed Mr Jan Eggink who had been chairman of the Board since 2014.
Cees de Jong became a member of the Board in 2017. He has a degree in medicine and business education and has extensive international experience. ForFarmers said his broad management experience with various listed companies is of particular value to the Board.
At present, de Jong is President and CEO of the Danish listed bioscience company, Chr. Hansen. However, he has indicated that he will resign from that position on May 31 2018.