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Mathijs van Kouwen

  • Chief Financial Officer, HAL Holding N.V., HAL.AS since 2025-10src

HAL Group Finance Director from 2015; CFO since October 2025

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Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
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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
1 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
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Airtime on calls
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Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 3

  • Unclear whether he is a statutory Executive Board member: the board is stated as two persons from 2025-09-30, with de Visser proposed to it in May 2025src
  • No pay or shareholding recorded: the 2025 annual report was located but halholding.com is egress-blocked, and eu_data was not called (monthly credit exhausted)src
  • Pre-2015 career not found, and the education line rests on a LinkedIn search summary (a namesake exists at Copper8)src

Career

  1. 2025-10 – now
    HAL Holding N.V.src
    Chief Financial Officer
  2. 2015 – 2025-09
    HAL Holding N.V. / HAL Investmentssrc
    Group Finance Director

Not located: Everything before joining HAL in 2015 (employers, roles, years) not located in any source searched. halholding.com, cfo.nl and LinkedIn are egress-blocked

Achievements

  • Promoted from inside after about ten years as HAL's Group Finance Directorsrc
  • Succeeded a CFO who had run HAL's finances for 32 years; the handover was announced about ten months aheadsrc
  • HAL reported FY2025, his first year-end as CFO, at net income of EUR 1,597m against EUR 1,210m in 2024src

Education

  • Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, MSc (cum laude) Econometrics (Quantitative Finance)src
  • Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, MSc Finance & Investmentssrc

Background

  • Family No family relationship to other officers or directors, or to the controlling Van der Vorm family, is stated in the sources readsrc
  • Other Quantitative training (econometrics) rather than an audit-firm background, as far as the sources go; his pre-HAL employers were not locatedsrc

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 Trust Annual Report 2025 (summary: Mathijs van Kouwen appointed CFO effective 2025-10-01; J.N. van Wiechen Chairman; Executive Board remuneration on p.176). Located, not fetched: halholding.com egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  2. 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
  3. Web search result WebSearch: CFO.nl 'Mathijs van Kouwen is de nieuwe CFO van HAL' (summary: at HAL since 2015 as Group Finance Director; succeeds Arie van 't Hof). Not fetched, egress-blocked · 2026-09-24
  4. Web search result WebSearch: LinkedIn profile 'Mathijs van Kouwen - HAL Holding N.V.' (summary: MSc Econometrics, Quantitative Finance, cum laude, and MSc Finance & Investments, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam). Not fetched; a namesake at Copper8 has a separate profile · 2026-09-24
  5. 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). Not fetched, egress-blocked · 2026-09-24