There’s not but a definitive successor for Dick Benschop. In its personal phrases, the Schiphol Supervisory Board doesn’t wish to lose any time ‘in these difficult instances for the airport’ and has due to this fact opted for an interim CEO who will tackle the day-to-day administration. “The precedence right here is to convey the operational processes at Schiphol rapidly and completely to the extent that passengers and airways can count on. He’ll due to this fact stay till the top of the 2023 summer time interval,” the airport stated in an evidence of the appointment.
“We’re very happy that Ruud Sondag will briefly fill the place of CEO of Royal Schiphol Group. Along with his data and expertise of advanced and labour-intensive organizations, Ruud is the correct particular person for this interim place. It will allow him to make an necessary contribution to fixing Schiphol’s operational challenges. He’s a strategist with a broad logistics background and powerful operational execution energy who has efficiently led organizations in transition. Ruud Sondag additionally has a confirmed sustainability profile that’s according to Schiphol’s ambition to speed up sustainability and scale back the burden on the setting,” stated Jaap Winter, chairman of the Supervisory Board of Schiphol Group.
Sondag is a supervisory director at ProRail and the Port of Rotterdam Authority, amongst others. He’s relinquishing these positions so as to have the ability to absolutely concentrate on Schiphol. Beforehand, he was CEO of vitality firm Eneco and chairman of the supervisory board of Vebego. He was additionally CEO of Van Gansewinkel Groep for greater than ten years and a serious shareholder of Van Scherpenzeel Groep. Each corporations concentrate on sustainable assortment and recycling, vitality and water.
“Schiphol is a good firm with a serious problem in the meanwhile. I’m extraordinarily motivated to get Schiphol again on monitor along with all staff and stakeholders. Structural enchancment is crucial for the traveller, for airways and for the Netherlands,” stated the non permanent CEO.
