Meet the Team.
Dolf van den Brink was appointed Chairman of the Executive Board / CEO of HEINEKEN N.V. in June 2020.
Dolf joined HEINEKEN in 1998 as a Commercial Management Trainee. Between 1999-2005 he worked in various marketing and commerce roles at Vrumona and in Global Commerce. In 2005 he was appointed Commercial Director at Bralima in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He then move to New York in 2009 to become Managing Director of HEINEKEN USA for six years. In 2015 he was appointed Managing Director of HEINEKEN Mexico (Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma). After three years he then moved to Singapore to become President, APAC in 2018 and joined the Executive Team.
A native of The Netherlands, Dolf attended the Advanced Management Program in Wharton, University of Pennsylvania, and has a MA in Philosophy and MSc in Business Administration, both from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. He is a 2014 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
In 2016 Dolf received the Vital Voices Solidarity Award for his and Heineken Mexico’s work against domestic violence in Mexico. In 2012, Fortune Magazine listed him as one of their "40 Under 40".
Dolf is married to Sylvia and has 2 daughters.
Andrew Kamara is the VP of Operations, where he manages the manufacturing side of Edesia, overseeing manufacturing, quality and logistics/warehouse. Andrew has been with Edesia for 13 years and has served in many different positions across the organization.
Prior to Edesia, Andrew spent two years working for Coca Cola Enterprises as a mid-level Distribution Resource overseeing deliveries, storage and distribution of a wide range of bottled soft drinks. Andrew also spent six years working for United Natural Foods as a Quality Assurance Specialist and a grocery/ repackaging Supervisor.
Andrew studied Political Science & International relations from the University of Connecticut and has an Advance Diploma in Electronics from NIIT Accra, Ghana.