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Governance body
Riwal’s global growth strategy is driven by an international Executive Management Team, with extensive experience in
the industry. The Executive Management has a joint overall and P&L responsibility for the Group as a whole, including
the execution of the Riwal’s culture, values, mission and vision.
The composition of the Board of Directors is subject to the Management and Supervision act. The female percentage
in the current Board of Directors is 14% (2020: 25%). On the Riwal Headquarters 29% of the staff is female and the
total HQ staff is spread out over 12 nationalities. This shows the strategy of Riwal to select the right person for the job
independent of gender or nationality.
Pedro Torres, CEO
René Timmers, CFO
Pedro Torres was appointed CEO in July 2019. Before
René Timmers was appointed CFO in September 2015.
that, he was COO of Riwal since June 2015. He joined
He started his career at Riwal as group controller in
the company in 2012 as Regional Director for Southern
2012, a role in which he was instrumental in improving
Europe. Pedro started in the Aerial Work Platform rental
key financial processes including internal control,
business in 1999 as the CEO and shareholder of
budget & forecasting and financial and management
Nacanco Spain and Italy. After selling Nacanco Spain in
reporting. In more recent years René was the board
2007, Pedro joined HUNE, who acquired Nacanco and
sponsor of the global implementation of our ERP
3 other leading rental companies in Spain, as Group
system. Before joining Riwal, René served in a variety of
General Manager.
audit positions at global audit firm KPMG International
(1997-2012), during which period he audited stock listed
companies with a global footprint.
Johan van Klinken, CCO
Bob de Leeuw, CIO
Johan van Klinken was appointed CCO (Chief Commer-
Bob de Leeuw was appointed CIO (Chief Information
cial Officer) as per 1 April 2023. He started his career in
Officer) as per 1 January 2024. He began his career at
Riwal at 2015 as Country Manager for the Netherlands.
Riwal as IT Director ad interim in 2021 and joined Riwal
In 2019 he became Regional Director South-West
in 2022 as an employee and Managing Director Digital
Europe. In 2021 he was promoted as Manging Director
& IT. His task was to optimize the use of the InSync
Commercial. Before joining Riwal, Johan had an extensive
program, establish an IT organization, optimize systems
experience in the automotive sector (1990-2015). From
and applications to ensure the establishment of the
1994-1998, he was responsible for the M&A activities of
Digital Roadmap. Bob has 25 years of experience in
LeasePlan Cooperation. After that, Johan has held various
IT and was responsible for Business & IT alignment in
(international) key management positions, mainly in the
comparable roles at companies such as CGI, Damen
automotive industry.
Shipyards, and Vanderlande Industries.
Glenn Verburg, COO
Glenn Verburg was appointed COO (Chief Operational
Officer) as per 1 January 2024. Glenn started his career
at Riwal as Controller in 2011 and moved to operations to
become the Group Fleet Manager in 2014. In the following years Glenn played an important role in the growth
of the Riwal Group by adding a significant number of
new machines to the different operations. In 2016 he
extended his scope and became the Group Operations
Manager before being appointed to Country Manager of
the Benelux in 2019.
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