Young captain 2018

Young captain 2018 opens trading day

Rogier Smeets (37), winner of the Young Captain Award 2018, opens trading on the Amsterdam stock exchange by sounding the gong.

Mr. Smeets was in the final with two other management talents from the Dutch business community:

1. Cécile Cluitmans, Director Division Buildings at Arcadis
2. Mark Stoffels, General Manager & Vice President at Philips Health Systems Latin America

About the Young Captain Award

The Young Captain Award is an initiative of the Young Captain Netherlands Foundation. With the awarding, the upcoming generation of decision makers will be brought under the public’s attention.

In cooperation with the Nyenrode Business University, the Young Captain Foundation organizes the Young Bilderberg Conference, a unique think tank of young business leaders.

The foundation also organizes the two-day Young Captains program in collaboration with the Award partners. Candidates are prepared for the next steps in their careers.

The award has been awarded since 2005 to the most talented young business leader that...

• was struck by daring, decisiveness and originality in an early phase of his/her career
• thinks international
• sees leadership as a social, personal and economic responsibility

The decision was made in the presence of 120 directors and managers from the business community and the government.

For more information: www.youngcaptainaward.nl

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