This year`s winners of the Excellence Award

Excellence
Award
2013
Rewarding peak performance
The Excellence Award recognizes
­managers and their teams who are
willing to go the extra mile, who
are putting all their passion into their
work and, thus, have made a positive
impact on the company in the past
fiscal year. The nine Excellence Award
2013 winners were nominated by their
Presidents.
For the second time, a
“Team Excellence
Award” was given to a
successful team that
worked across different
functions and Regions,
fostering cross-border
thinking and collaboration.
Honored was the Global
Gourmet Leadership
Team (GGLT) for an
outstanding EBIT growth
across all Regions.
Nakano Fumitaka
Managing Director Japan
Robert Harrison
Gourmet Business Manager
United Kingdom
For his instrumental role in
leading the changes for our
business in Japan and its
contribution to our overall
growth in Asia-Pacific.
For continuously delivering
double-digit growth top- and
bottom-line despite a flat
market evolution in the U.K.
and for creating a very
strong team full of passion,
dedication and commitment.
Mike Schrauth,
Senior Director Sales &
Marketing Gourmet Americas
Steven Vandamme
Chief Information Officer
Sofie Ville
Corporate Controller
Operations & Supply Chain
Frédéric Trombert,
VP Gourmet EEMEA
For delivering year by year
critical improvement projects,
in time and budget. For being
a strong, dedicated manager
with a human touch, an
impressive business and
technical knowledge and a
demanding but fun colleague
to work with.
For her ability to build
business cases and solutions
for our outsourcing deals,
her commitment to critically
challenge received data and
ensure OSCO receives better
quality information.
Pascale
Meulemeester,
VP Global Gourmet
Brand Marketing and
GGLT team leader
Paul Halliwell,
VP Gourmet Asia-Pacific
Philippe Janvier,
VP Gourmet Western Europe
Sales & Trade Marketing
Claudia Kühne,
Senior Global Marketing
Manager Callebaut®
Anne Le Corre,
Group Gourmet Marketing
Controller
Joost Lindemann,
Senior Global Cacao Barry®
Marketing Manager
Beau Netzer,
VP Sales Gourmet
Dries Roekaerts,
R&D Director Gourmet &
Decorations Western Europe
Freek van der Knaap,
VP Gourmet Western Europe
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Alex Landuyt
Application & Innovations
Manager
Beau Netzer
Vice President Sales
Gourmet Americas
Hendra Satya
Plant Manager Indonesia
Frédéric Trombert
Vice President Gourmet
EEMEA
For being always full of new
ideas, for doing exceptional
development work under
great time pressure and
always changing demands,
for hosting so many customers throughout a year, and
for making time for real
conversations.
For realizing significant sales
volume and EBIT growth
two years in a row and for
the highly successful
acquisition and integration
of the Mona Lisa company
in the U.S. And for being a
strong member of the Global
Gourmet Leadership Team.
For his 35-year commitment
in the cocoa industry and
sharing his experience in
building factories all over
the world.
For refining our long-term
strategy and developing as
well as executing it successfully into regional and local
action plans and for delivering very strong results both
top- and bottom-line.
Steve Woolley
Vice President of Sourcing
Americas
For successfully managing
the sourcing of non-cocoa
products as a real team
player, for supporting the
volume growth and for a
tremendous EBIT growth of
our non-cocoa sourcing and
chocolate business in the
Americas25
over the last six
years.