VYNOVA

HANS MATTHEEUWS

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT FINANCE

Hans Mattheeuws heads the company’s Finance, IT, Tax and Legal activities. Before joining Vynova, he served as CFO and CIO of INEOS ChlorVinyls Belgium. Previous executive experience includes finance leadership positions at Campina and Tessenderlo Group. Mr. Mattheeuws has extensive experience serving in management and financial positions within multinational corporations as well as in smaller entrepreneurial driven environments.

Mr. Mattheeuws has a Master’s degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and earned his MBA and Master in Controllership from Vlerick Business School (Belgium). 

JOHAN VAN DEN BROECK

EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT COMMERCIAL

Johan Van Den Broeck supervises the company’s group-wide Business Management, Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain and Procurement activities. He has served previously as Head of Business of Limburgse Vinyl Maatschappij (LVM, historically part of Tessenderlo Group and INEOS ChlorVinyls) and business manager of the chloromethanes business with INEOS ChlorVinyls. Prior to this, Mr. Van Den Broeck held various leadership positions in IT, supply chain and purchasing with Agfa, Dow Chemical and Deloitte before serving as Supply Chain and Purchasing director at Tessenderlo Chemie.

Mr. Van Den Broeck is Vice Chairman of the Management Committee of the European chlorine industry association Euro Chlor and chairs the Halogens Industry Sector Board of Cefic, the European Chemical Industry Council.

Mr. Van Den Broeck has a degree in Commercial Engineering from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium).

HENK VELDINK

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER (COO)

Henk Veldink leads the company’s operations, covering the monomers and polymers plants in Tessenderlo (Belgium), Wilhelmshaven (Germany), Mazingarbe (France), Beek (The Netherlands) and Runcorn (UK). In addition, he supervises the group-wide Technology & Engineering processes.

Mr. Veldink has twenty years of experience in various leadership positions in the chemical industry. He has served as Senior Global Manufacturing Director at Westlake Epoxy. Prior to this, he has held several senior management roles in manufacturing and operational excellence at DSM in Europe and Asia and at GE Plastics.

Mr. Veldink is a member of the Board of the Royal Association of the Dutch Chemical Industry (VNCI), which promotes the collective interests of the chemical industry in the Netherlands.

Mr. Veldink has a Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Twente (the Netherlands) as well as an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (the Netherlands).