Executive Committee
Pierre-Olivier Beckers
Mr. Beckers has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Delhaize Group since January 1, 1999. He began working in the food retail industry in 1982 as a store manager for a bakery chain in Belgium. Mr. Beckers joined us in 1983, to work initially three years in our U.S. operations as a store manager. After his return to Belgium, he broadened his retail experience as a buyer, director of purchasing, member of the Executive Committee and Director and Executive Vice-President in charge of international activities. In January 2000, Mr. Beckers was named Manager of the Year by the leading Belgian business magazine Trends/Tendances. In 2009, he was named Belgium’s BEL 20 CEO of the year by the Belgian newspapers Le Soir and De Standaard. Until June 2010, he was Co-Chairman of the Consumer Good Forum, a global association of leading consumer goods retailers and manufacturers. Previously, Mr. Beckers served as chairman of the CIES, the Food Business Forum, from 2002 to 2004 and again from July 2008 until its merger and transformation into the Consumer Goods Forum. Mr. Beckers serves on the Board of Directors of The Consumer Goods Forum. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Food Marketing Institute and is Vice-Chairman of the Executive Committee of FEB/VBO, the Belgian Employers Federation. He is a member of Guberna and, until 2010, the Belgian Commission on Corporate Governance. He is President of the BOIC (Belgian Olympic Interfederal Committee) since December 2004, with a current term expiring in 2013. He also was elected to the International Olympic Committee in July 2012. Mr. Beckers earned a Master’s degree in applied economics at I.A.G., Louvain-La-Neuve and an MBA from Harvard Business School. |
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Pierre Bouchut
Mr. Bouchut is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Delhaize Group. Mr. Bouchut began his career in 1979 with Citibank Paris. He joined Bankers Trust France SA in 1987 to become Vice-President, Finance. In 1988, he joined McKinsey & Company as a consultant in the Corporate Finance and Integrated Logistics practices. Between 1990 and 2005, Mr. Bouchut was with Group Casino, where he successively held the positions of Chief Financial Officer, Managing Director and CEO responsible for both the French and international operations (USA, Poland, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Brazil, Argentina, Columbia and Venezuela). Between 2005 and 2009, Mr. Bouchut served with Schneider Group as CFO, developing numerous initiatives in the field of structured finance, risk management and external growth. He joined Carrefour in 2009 as Chief Financial Officer and was most recently Executive Director Growth Markets of Carrefour, overlooking operations in Latin America (Brazil, Columbia and Argentina) and in Turkey, India, Indonesia and Malaysia. He was also overlooking Carrefour Personal Financial Services operations worldwide. Mr. Bouchut is graduated from HEC and holds a Master Degree in Applied Economics from Paris Dauphine University. |
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Roland Smith
Mr. Smith is President and Chief Executive Officer of Delhaize America and Executive Vice President of Delhaize Group. Mr. Smith served as an officer in the U.S. Army for seven years. Mr. Smith held senior management positions at Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pepsi Cola International, Schering-Plough and Procter & Gamble before joining in 1994 Arby's Inc, predecessor to Arby’s Restaurant Group Inc. He was promoted to President and CEO of Arby’s Inc. in February 1997, serving in that capacity until 1999. From April 1999 until January 2003, Mr. Smith was Chief Executive Officer of AMF Bowling Worldwide, Inc. Between February 2003 and November 2005, Mr. Smith served as Chief Executive Officer of American Golf Corporation. In April 2006, Mr. Smith returned to Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc. where he served as Chief Executive Officer until September 2008. In September 2008, Triarc Companies Inc. the parent company of Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. merged with Wendy’s International Inc. to form Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc. where Mr. Smith served as President and Chief Executive Officer until July 2011. After the sale of Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc. in July 2011, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Wendy’s Company until September 2011. Mr. Smith is currently a Director of The Wendy’s Company and Chairman of the Board of Directors for Carmike Cinemas, Inc., a national trustee of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, a national executive board member of the Boy Scouts of America and a member of the World Presidents' Organization International. Mr. Smith is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York. |
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Stéfan Descheemaeker
Mr. Descheemaeker is Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of Delhaize Europe since January 2011. Before he was Chief Financial Officer of Delhaize Group since 2009. He started his career with Cobepa, at that time the Benelux investment company of BNP-Paribas. He later joined the holding company Defi as CEO of its financial subsidiary Definance. In 1996, he joined the Belgian brewer Interbrew, where he became head of Strategy & External Growth, managing its M&A operations, culminating with the merger of Interbrew and AmBev in 2004. At that point in time, he transitioned to operational management, in charge of respectively the brewer’s operations in the U.S. and Mexico, Central and Eastern Europe, and, eventually, Western Europe. In 2008, Mr. Descheemaeker ended his operational responsibilities at Anheuser-Busch InBev and joined its Board as non-executive director. Mr. Descheemaeker holds a Masters’ degree as Commercial Engineer, Solvay Business School, Brussels, Belgium. |
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Nicolas Hollanders
Mr. Hollanders has been Executive Vice President of Delhaize Group since 2007 currently in charge of Human Resources, IT and Sustainability of Delhaize Group since 2007. He started his career as a lawyer. In 1989, he joined Delvaux, a Brussels-based manufacturer and distributor of luxury leather goods and accessories, first as General Manager, and from 1993 as Managing Director. In 1995, Mr. Hollanders joined the executive search firm Egon Zehnder International, where he served successively as consultant, principal and partner. Mr. Hollanders is founding member and Chairman of Child Planet, a foundation aimed at improving conditions in children’s hospitals and also serves on the board of Face Children. Mr. Hollanders holds a Master’s degrees in Law and Notary Law and a Post Graduate degree in Economics from the University of Leuven. |
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Kostas Macheras
Mr. Macheras is Executive Vice President of Delhaize Group and Chief Executive Officer Southeastern Europe. Mr. Macheras joined Delhaize Group in 1997 as General Manager of Alfa Beta Vassilopoulos. In 2009 Mr. Macheras added Mega Image, the Romanian operations of Delhaize Group, to his responsibilities. Mr. Macheras started his professional career in retailing in the U.S., as purchasing manager at the Quality Super Market Company in Chicago. He worked for 14 years for Mars, Inc. In 1982, he was in charge of sales, marketing and export in The Netherlands, and later became General Manager for Greece and Italy. From 1996-1997 he served as General Manager of Chipita International in Greece. He is a Board member of EEDE (Hellenic Management Association) for nine years. He has been a member of the Board of Directors at EASE (Association of Greek Executive Officers) since 2008, and is also currently a Board member of SEET (Association of Greek Food Enterprises). In 2005, he was named Officer in the Order of Leopold II by King Albert II of Belgium. In April 2009, Mr. Macheras was elected Manager of the Year 2008 by the Hellenic Management Association. Mr. Macheras holds a BA from Piraeus University and an MBA from the Roosevelt University of Chicago (Business Administration & Marketing). |
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Michael Waller
Mr. Waller is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and General Secretary of Delhaize Group since April 2001. He started his career with Delhaize as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Delhaize America July 2000. Mr. Waller also served as President Director and Member of the Board of Directors of PT. Lion Super Indo from April 2011 to December 2012. Previously, Mr. Waller was a partner in the international law firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P. In the years prior to joining Delhaize America, Mr. Waller served as Managing Partner of Akin Gump’s Moscow and London offices, and maintained an international corporate practice. Mr. Waller earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from Auburn University and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Houston, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Houston Law Review. Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Waller served as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Robert O’Conor, Jr. in the Southern district of Texas. |
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