Joosten named at FrieslandCampina

The supervisory Board of the Netherlands-based, Royal FrieslandCampina has appointed Roelof Joosten as a member of the executive board of Royal FrieslandCampina with effect from 1 January 2012. He will be responsible as chief operating officer for the business group Ingredients. Since January 2011, he has been responsible for this business group as executive director.

Joosten has been working at FrieslandCampina since November 2004. Until 1 January 2011, he was MD of the operating company, FrieslandCampina Domo. Before joining FrieslandCampina, his previous employers included ICI and Unilever.

Cees ‘t Hart, CEO of Royal FrieslandCampina says: “Joosten has extensive experience and the skills to manage the further expansion of our operations in the field of nutritional and functional ingredients. He has succeeded in making FrieslandCampina Domo a producer of added value products. Achieving further growth and more added value with our ingredients operations is an important priority focus of our route2020 strategy.”