Supervisory board
The Supervisory Board supervises the general policy and strategy of APX-ENDEX and provides advice to the Management Board. The nature of the company and the required expertise of the Supervisory Board members are reflected in the composition profile of the Supervisory Board. At present, the Supervisory Board consists of seven members. The members step down according to a predetermined retirement rota.
The Supervisory Board has drawn up regulations that govern how Directors must function.
Mr J.B.M. ten Berge
Mr Ten Berge studied chemistry at Heidelberg College in Ohio and University of Utrecht. He obtained a Master’s degree in chemistry followed by a Master’s degree in Business Administration at Delft University. Mr Ten Berge started his career at Exxon Chemicals. In 1985 he continued working for Kemira, where he held amongst others the position of Managing Director of the Dutch fertilisers’ plants. In 1997 Mr Ten Berge joined Eneco Energie and was appointed member of the Management Board in 1998 being responsible for mergers, acquisitions, regulatory affairs and strategy. During this period Eneco grew significantly, partly due to major acquisitions. As per 1st January 2007 Mr Ten Berge stepped down from this position. Additional former functions included member of the Management Board of EnergieNed, member of the Supervisory Board of Kema and member of the Supervisory Board of ENDEX.
As per June 2007 Mr Ten Berge has been appointed Secretary General of Union of the Electricity Industry EURELECTRIC.
Mr E. Bosman
Mr Bosman obtained a Master’s degree in Applied Sciences, Power Engineering and Energy at Ghent University and in Business Economics / Finance at Antwerp University, followed by a General Management degree at Harvard Business School.
Upon graduation Mr Bosman started his career in the Finance sector at Generale Bank and as consultant and lecturer in the field of financial planning, company pension and corporate strategy. He published on energy and retirement strategy, was co-founder of the Institute for Personal Financial Planning and taught Corporate Strategy. In 1982 he joined Electrabel where he held a variety of posts in different generation divisions, a mission in the strategy department and was responsible for the Belgian sectorial long-term investment plan for grids and power plants. In 1997 he became manager of the National Dispatch carrying through the split between grid dispatch and economic dispatch. Out of this latest activity emerged what became Trading and Portfolio Management.
Mr Bosman has recently been appointed GDF Suez General Manager Portfolio Management Benelux and Germany.
Mr Drs. Ir. H.A.T. Chin-Sue
After completing his secondary school studies in Paramaribo, Mr Chin-Sue took a degree in mechanical engineering from Delft Technical University in May 1980.
In 1987, he obtained a doctorate in economics at the University of Amsterdam and in 1998 he qualified as a Register Controller at the Free University of Amsterdam.
Mr Chin-Sue joined N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie in 1983, fulfilling various functions in both the technical and financial sectors. In February 2002, Mr Chin-Sue was appointed Managing Director of Finance and General Affairs at Gastransport Services. Since 1 October 2002 he has occupied the same position at N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie.
Mr Chin-Sue was appointed Member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer of Gasunie on 1 July 2005. On that day, Gasunie became a natural gas transport, infrastructure and services company.
Mr R. de Jong RA
Mr R. de Jong has been member of the Executive Board of Essent N.V. as CFO since 1 September 2002.
Prior to joining Essent, Mr De Jong held different positions at the publishing house Elsevier, which later became Reed Elsevier. Until 1996, he was Director Corporate Finance and subsequently Group Treasurer of Reed Elsevier PLC. From 1997 to 2001, Mr De Jong was Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer of ASM International, a listed supplier of production solutions to the semi-conductor industry. Between 2001 and when he joined Essent, De Jong worked as an independent financial adviser.
Mr J.M. Kroon
Mr Kroon has been TenneT B.V.’s President and Chief Executive Officer since 1 January 2002, having previously, from 1997 to 2002, held the position of Managing Director of Hooge Huys Verzekeringen N.V., part of the Utrecht-based SNS Reaal Insurance Group, where in 1999 he was appointed Deputy Chair of the Executive Board of SNS Reaal Insurance.
Having read aeronautical and aerospace engineering at Delft University of Technology, Mr Kroon went on to complete his Master’s in Business Administration at Rochester University/Erasmus University in Rotterdam. His career first took off at Fokker Aircraft N.V., where he held a variety of posts including that of Vice President for Marketing. He then transferred, first to Holec N.V. as Director for Marketing & Sales of the Traction Division, then to the SNS Reaal Insurance Group.
Mr G.H. de Marez Oyens
Mr De Marez Oyens, Former Secretary General of the International Federation of Stock Exchanges now referred to as World Federation of Exchanges in Paris France, has spent his career in the banking and securities industry. He is a graduate of the University of Leiden in The Netherlands with a degree in law and concentrations in economics, international payment and monetary policies and banking. Upon graduation, he joined Bank Oyens & Van Eeghen NV. His banking experience included specialisation in securities trading, arbitrage and investment banking. In 1975, Mr De Marez Oyens joined the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, now Euronext Amsterdam. He served as Deputy Secretary and Secretary before becoming Secretary General in 1984. There his responsibilities covered general management of the Exchange, member liaison, product development, trading methodology, trading systems and international markets, market quality, and national and international relations. In 1990, he became Secretary General of the FIBV in Paris. This organisation sets standards, as well as develops benchmarks and best practices for the worldwide securities industry including derivatives. In addition to being a regular contributor to numerous professional publications, he co-authored the 1986 Dutch Institute for the Banking and Securities Industries’ extensive work on “The Internationalization of the Securities Industry”.
Mr De Marez Oyens is also a recognized and frequent speaker on world capital market developments. After his career at FIBV he started his own firm Aldires, specialising in the resolution of conflicts (mediation) between businesses cross border.
Mr J.R. Steinhauser
Mr Steinhauser acted as managing director of the ‘Call for action’ of Amsterdam as a international financial centre from 1989 till 1994, coordinating a national initiative of the Dutch financial industry, the government and the city of Amsterdam. In this period 17 foreign banks from Asia, the USA, Canada and Europe set up shops in Amsterdam through active acquisition. From 1974 till 1989 he was employed by the Dutch central bank in prudential supervision, international monetary affairs and legal affairs. From 1981 till 1989 he was, as a deputy director of the central bank, responsible for the Dutch bank note circulation.
Education: lawyer, specialised in company law, tax law and economics.
Certified mediator; management courses in the Netherlands and the USA.
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