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Jaap N. van Wiechen

  • Chairman of the Executive Board (CEO), HAL Holding N.V., HAL.AS since 2024-04src

At HAL since 1997; Chairman of the Executive Board (CEO) since April 2024

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design—no proxy read yet
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
In the role
2 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
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Dodges / 100 answers
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Airtime on calls
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Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 4

  • Controlled company: the Van der Vorm family owns about 68% of HAL Trust's listed shares, so the CEO answers to a family majority rather than to outside holderssrc
  • Governance transition around him: Martijn van der Vorm left the supervisory board in May 2025 and died in April 2026; long-time CFO van 't Hof retired 2025-09-30, leaving a two-person Executive Boardsrc
  • No pay or shareholding recorded: the 2025 annual report (remuneration on p.176) was located but halholding.com is egress-blocked, and eu_data was not called (monthly credit exhausted)src
  • Every career line here rests on search-result summaries, not on a document read in fullsrc

Career

  1. 2024-04 – now
    HAL Holding N.V. / HAL Investments B.V.src
    Chairman of the Executive Board (CEO)
  2. 2014 – 2024-03
    HAL Holding N.V.src
    Member of the Executive Board; director of HAL Investments B.V.
    Wikipedia (WS-wiki) prints the board start as 2024, a slip against the company release's 2014
  3. 1997 – 2014
    HAL Investments B.V.src
    Investment staff, rising to director (titles by year not located)
    1997 start consistent with WS-wiki's '27 years at HAL' in April 2024
  4. 2020-04 – 2024-04
    SBM Offshore N.V.src
    Supervisory Board member (one four-year term, not renewed)
    Outside seat alongside the HAL role; appointment proposed for the 2020-04-08 AGM (WS-sbm2020)

Not located: Titles and dates inside HAL between 1997 and 2014 not located; every line rests on search summaries because halholding.com, the SBM Offshore and Boskalis sites are egress-blocked

Achievements

  • Internal successor: 27 years at HAL before taking over as Chairman of the Executive Board from M.F. Groot on 2024-04-01src
  • HAL Holding reported 2025 net income of EUR 1,597m (EUR 17.68 a share) against EUR 1,210m in 2024, his first full year as CEOsrc
  • Long-serving HAL nominee on portfolio boards: Boskalis Supervisory Board since 2011, through HAL's 2022 cash offer that took it to 98.3% and delisted itsrc
  • Chairs the Supervisory Board of Coolblue (Mondhoekje B.V.) and sits on its Audit Committeesrc

Education

  • University of Groningen, Not stated Econometrics (1997)src

Background

  • Family No family relationship to other officers or directors, or to the controlling Van der Vorm family, is stated in the sources read; the 2025 annual report governance section was out of reachsrc
  • Boards Supervisory Board member of Boskalis since 2011 (reappointed 2019); treated as not independent there because of his HAL rolesrc
  • Boards Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Coolblue; in 2019 also on the supervisory board of Atlas Services Group Holding B.V.src
  • Boards SBM Offshore Supervisory Board 2020-2024; left after one termsrc
  • Investing A career investor inside one family-controlled holding company: joined HAL Investments in 1997 and has not worked elsewhere in any source foundsrc

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

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  1. Web search result WebSearch: HAL press release 'Net income for 2023 of EUR 1,001 million' (summary: M.F. Groot, Chairman of the Executive Board since 2014, retired effective 2024-03-31 and was succeeded as Chairman by J.N. van Wiechen, Executive Board member since 2014; place of effective management of HAL Holding N.V. moved to the Netherlands from 2024-04-01). halholding.com egress-blocked, page not fetched · 2026-09-24
  2. Web search result WebSearch: HAL Trust Annual Report 2025 (summary: J.N. van Wiechen Chairman; Mathijs van Kouwen CFO effective 2025-10-01; Executive Board remuneration on p.176). Located, not fetched: halholding.com egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  3. Web search result WebSearch: HAL Trust press release of 2026-03-27 (summary: HAL Holding N.V. 2025 net income EUR 1,597m, EUR 17.68 a share, against EUR 1,210m for 2024; NAV up EUR 1,190m in 2025). Not fetched, egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  4. Web search result Wikipedia 'HAL Investments' (fetched): van Wiechen CEO from 2024-04-01 after 27 years at HAL; Van der Vorm family owns about 68% of HAL Trust's listed shares; Martijn van der Vorm chaired the management board to 2014-09-30, the supervisory board to May 2025, and died end of April 2026 · 2026-09-24
  5. Web search result WebSearch: Mergr team page (summary: Jaap van Wiechen joined HAL Investments in 1997). Not fetched, egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  6. Web search result WebSearch: SBM Offshore Annual Report 2023, Supervisory Board and Committees (summary: studied Econometrics at the University of Groningen, graduated 1997; member of the Executive Board of HAL Holding N.V. / director of HAL Investments B.V.). Not fetched, egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  7. Web search result WebSearch: SBM Offshore 'to nominate Supervisory Board members', 2020-02-13 (summary: proposed for appointment to the Supervisory Board at the 2020-04-08 AGM, as Executive Board member of HAL Holding N.V. and director of HAL Investments B.V.) · 2026-09-24
  8. Web search result WebSearch: SBM Offshore 'to nominate Supervisory Board member', 2024-02-12 (summary: van Wiechen reached the end of his first four-year term at the 2024-04-12 AGM and did not seek a second) · 2026-09-24
  9. Web search result WebSearch: Royal Boskalis Westminster 2019 AGM agenda (summary: Supervisory Board member since 2011, reappointed 2019 for four years; Dutch; board of management of HAL Holding N.V. and HAL Investments B.V.; chairman of the supervisory board of Mondhoekje B.V. (Coolblue) and supervisory board member of Atlas Services Group Holding B.V.; not independent because of his HAL position). Not fetched, egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  10. Web search result WebSearch: Coolblue yearbook, Corporate Governance (summary: Jaap van Wiechen chairs the Supervisory Board and sits on the Audit Committee of Coolblue (Mondhoekje B.V.); listed as Chairman of the Executive Board of HAL Holding N.V. and Boskalis Supervisory Board member). Not fetched, egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  11. Web search result WebSearch: 'Final results of the Offer for Boskalis: HAL will hold 98.3% of the Shares', GlobeNewswire 2022-09-20 (summary: EUR 33.00 cum dividend cash offer announced 2022-03-10; delisting effective 2022-11-09) · 2026-09-24
  12. Web search result WebSearch: HAL Holding N.V. (KvK 93543557, Rotterdam) release (summary: CFO A.A. van 't Hof, Executive Board member since 2014, retires from the Executive Board 2025-09-30 after 32 years; CFO responsibilities to Mathijs van Kouwen, with HAL since 2015; the Executive Board will then be two persons; R. de Visser proposed for the Executive Board at the 2025-05-16 meeting). Not fetched, egress-blocked · 2026-09-24