​Bejo expands Board of Directors with Yvonne van der Vorst as Director Crop Management

Date:02-03-2025

From 1st April, Yvonne van der Vorst will join Bejo's Board of Directors as Director Crop Management. This new position follows Bejo's wish to give greater focus to the strategic development of its global assortment and positioning of crops.  

Yvonne van der Vorst brings a lot of experience from the agricultural sector. She has held various management roles in marketing, business development en product  management at FrieslandCampina since graduating with a Master in Animal Science from Wageningen University. During the last period, she served as Strategic Marketing and Business Development Director at Agrifirm.   

Managing Director John-Pieter Schipper: ″As a result of the strong international growth of our company, strategic portfolio management is becoming increasingly important. We have established a new Crop Management department for this purpose and are anchoring it at board level. I am delighted to welcome Yvonne van der Vorst and confident that she will be an inspiring leader for our international team that is working on our existing and new crop strategies."   

With the addition of Yvonne van der Vorst to Bejo's Board, the executive team is fully up to strength. In previous communications, it was announced that Arend Schot joined Bejo as Director Sales & Country and Marc Bots will become Director Research & Breeding from March 1st. This is in preparation for the retirement of Martin van der Voort and Bert Schrijver later this year. In this new composition, the management team can once again go full steam ahead to realise its growth and development ambitions.