
| Frans Bakker (1948) | ||
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Frans Bakker graduated in taxation at the University of Amsterdam (1972) and at Michigan University (1973). After having worked in private practice, he joined the Royal Dutch Shell Group in 1978, where he served in various financial consulting and management positions. He joined Rodamco NV in 1990 where his responsibility was for worldwide taxation matters and later also for Group treasury and information technology. Frans was director of Rodamco Asia NV from 2000 to 2004. He is currently partner of Freeland Group. |
| Martijn Burghout (1951) | ||
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Martijn Burghout graduated in monetary economy from Erasmus University in Rotterdam (1980). He started his career as a civil servant with the government in the Hague where his last position was that of member of the management team of the Rijksgebouwendienst (Ministry of Housing and Construction). In 1985 he joined Jones Lang Wootton as head property management where he was appointed director and partner in 1989. In 1994 he started to work for Robeco Group in Rotterdam where he was responsible for the floating of Rodamco Retail Nederland NV and became a board member, as of 2000 in the function of CEO. After the merger of Rodamco Retail with Rodamco Europe he set up a joint venture in 2002 with Freeland Group to investigate the possibilities of starting a new asset management business. Martijn is now partner of Freeland Group with special responsibility for ShoppingParks, a property investment fund, of which he is a director. |
| Tim Koster (1957) | ||
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Tim Koster holds a Master's Degree in Dutch law from Groningen State University. He has more than 20 years experience in the fields of business law and property law. After having worked in private practice as an attorney with Nolst Trenité in Rotterdam (now Simmons & Simmons Trenité) from 1984 to 1990, he joined Mountleigh International in Rotterdam as senior legal counsel. In 1992 he joined Rodamco, first as legal counsel for Rodamco Continental Europe and later as general counsel (1995) and Corporate Secretary (1997) of the Rodamco Group. In these functions he was responsible for corporate compliance and securities matters. Tim was a director of Rodamco North America NV from 1999 until the take-over and delisting in 2002. Tim is now partner of Freeland Group. |
| Wilbert van Twuijver (1957) | ||
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Wilbert van Twuijver graduated in political economy (1984) as well as business economics (1987) at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is furthermore a certified public accountant in the Netherlands. Between 1984 and 1995, he worked in the international audit and advisory practice of Coopers & Lybrand (currently PricewaterhouseCoopers), from 1993 as Senior Manager. In 1995, he joined Rodamco NV as Corporate Controller. Since 2000 he is a director of Haslemere NV. Wilbert is now partner of Freeland Group. |