Marcel de Jong (Breda)
Specialisms within Excellentum: agri & food, FMCG & retail
Management experience: sales, marketing, managing director and Member of the Board at Boost, Orkla and Pelave Food Group and Procter & Gamble, among others.
Active in executive search and managing partner of Excellentum since 2018
Marcel has over 40 years of experience in the European FMCG and agri-food industry, at both listed companies and independent family-owned businesses. His special focus is on plant-based foods, a high-growth, knowledge-intensive market.
Marcel (BSc commercial economics, training at MIT and INSEAD) has lived and worked in Slovakia, Germany and Switzerland, and is fluent in English and German. He is used to functioning in a professional multicultural environment. Assessments describe him as a 'corporate entrepreneur', strongly focused on human capital, teamwork, structure and strategy.
Marcel private:
Searching and finding is Marcel's second nature, but in his spare time he just easily switches to 'go with the flow'. Preferably in the African bush and preferably in a 4×4 with rooftop tent.
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