ARCADIS Announces Management Changes.Business Editors &Environmental Writers ARNHEM, The Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 21, 2000 ARCADIS (Nasdaq:ARCAF; ASE (Adaptive Server Enterprise) A relational DBMS from Sybase that runs on Windows NT/2000, Linux and a variety of Unix platforms. ASE is a comprehensive and robust data management product with a long history dating back to the late 1980s. :ARCAD) announced today that Frans P. Luttmer will retire as Chairman of the Executive Board of ARCADIS NV effective July 1, 2000, after 31 years with the Company. During his more than 9 years with the Executive Board - initially as a member and from 1995 as Chairman - ARCADIS has quadrupled in revenues and grown from a Dutch contracting engineering company for local infrastructure and land use planning
Land use planning is the term used for a branch of public policy which encompasses various disciplines which seek to order and regulate the use of land in an efficient and ethical way. , into a multinational company offering engineering services in the fields of infrastructure, environment and commercial and industrial building. Today, over 60% of ARCADIS' employees live and work outside the Netherlands. Harrie L.J. Noy, age 48, has been appointed by the Supervisory Board Supervisory board The board of directors that represents stakeholders in the governance of the corporation. to replace Mr. Luttmer as Chairman of the Executive Board. Mr. Noy joined the Company in 1975. Between 1988 and 1994 he was Managing Director of ARCADIS Heidemij Advies BV, an operating company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. of ARCADIS NV. In 1994 he was appointed as a member of the Executive Board. The Company also announced that the Supervisory Board has appointed Michiel Jaski, age 40, as a member of the Executive Board in order to fill the resulting vacancy VACANCY. A place which is empty. The term is principally applied to cases where an office is not filled. 2. By the constitution of the United States, the president has the power to fill up vacancies that may happen during the recess of the senate. resulting from Mr. Luttmer's retirement. Mr. Jaski has substantial international experience gained in various positions with Koninklijke Shell. At present he is Global Vice President of one of Shell's strategic Chemical Business Units, with activities in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Latin-America and Europe. Mr. Jaski graduated from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, and later obtained an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration at INSEAD INSEAD Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (European Institute for Business Administration; now know simply as INSEAD) INSEAD I Never Stop Eating And Drinking in Fontainebleau, France. After a short period with Philips he joined Shell in 1988. As a result of these changes, the Executive Board of ARCADIS will contain the following members on July 1, 2000: Harrie L.J. Noy (Chairman), Steven B. Blake, Michiel Jaski, and Jan Zijlstra. ARCADIS with its head office in Arnhem, The Netherlands, is an engineering company specializing in consulting and implementation services for infrastructure, environment and construction engineering. Always with the aim to improve the physical quality of the living and working environment. ARCADIS stands for integrated solutions for projects in more than 100 countries. More than 90% of its revenues are generated in Euros or Dollars. With currently more than 8,000 employees, ARCADIS is one of the world's largest consulting engineering firms. |
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