Posted on January 17, 2017
By Jake Frith, MJ
The International Association of Dredging Companies (IADC) has announced the appointment of Mr. Frank Verhoeven as the new President of the IADC Board of Directors.
Mr. Verhoeven was part of the Royal Boskalis Westminster group of companies for 40 years. After graduating with a degree in civil engineering from the Technical University of Delft (TU Delft) in 1976, he joined Royal Boskalis as a research specialist. Over the next 25 years, he held several technical management functions before becoming General Manager for Boskalis Netherlands, a position he held from 2000 to 2005.
In 2005 he became a member of the management team of Royal Boskalis and was responsible for the company’s activities in Europe and several staff departments such as tender departments and SHE-Q.
When Boskalis broadened its activities to the offshore industry, acquiring Smit International and later Dockwise, Mr. Verhoeven became responsible for the company’s offshore activities and from 2010 to 2012 was chairman of Smit’s Management Team. In 2012 he became a member of the Board of Management of Royal Boskalis, a position he fulfilled until his retirement in 2016. Mr. Verhoeven is currently a member of various supervisory boards including that of Deltares, an independent institute for applied research in the field of water and soil.
Source: MJ
