{"id":1646,"date":"2017-10-19T13:11:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T11:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/confex2017\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2017-10-19T13:49:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T11:49:14","slug":"mel-kroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/confex2017\/conference\/speakers\/mel-kroon\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Kroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"inner\">\r\n<div class=\"row\">\r\n  <div class=\"col-24 col-md-8 m-b-2 a-center\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/confex2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/conference\/speakers\/kroon.jpg\" class=\"circle\" alt=\"Mel Kroon, CEO, TenneT\"\/>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div class=\"col-24 col-md-16\">\r\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\r\n<p><strong>Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Board of Management<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Ir. J.M. Kroon (1957, Dutch)<br \/>\r\n\r\n1 January 2002 Mel Kroon has been appointed as TenneT Holding B.V.\u2019s Chief Executive Officer. Previously, from 1997 to 2002 Mel Kroon held  the position of Managing Director of Hooge Huys Verzekeringen N.V., part of the Utrecht-based SNS Reaal Insurance Group, where in 1999 he was appointed Deputy Chair of the Executive Board of SNS Reaal Insurance.<br \/>\r\n\r\nHaving studied aeronautical and aerospace engineering at Delft University of Technology, Mel Kroon went on to complete his Master\u2019s in Business Administration at Rochester University\/Erasmus University in Rotterdam. His career first took off at Fokker Aircraft N.V., where he held a variety of posts including that of Vice President for Marketing. He then transferred, first to Holec N.V. as Director for Marketing &#038; Sales of the Traction Division, then to the SNS Reaal Insurance Group.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Other positions qualitate qua<\/strong><br \/>\r\nChairman Supervisory Board TenneT TSO GmbH, Member Supervisory Board EPEX SPOT, Chairman Supervisory Board NOVEC B.V.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Other positions<\/strong><br \/>\r\nMember of the Board Dutch-German Chamber of Commerce, Member of the Supervisory Board Co\u00f6peratie VGZ.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Other positions (Restrictive arrangements according to Wet Bestuur en Toezicht apply)<\/strong><br \/>\r\nMember Supervisory Board TKH Group N.V., Member Supervisory Board Ivy Infrastructure TopCo B.V.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of the Board of Management Ir. J.M. Kroon (1957, Dutch) 1 January 2002 Mel Kroon has been appointed as TenneT Holding B.V.\u2019s Chief Executive Officer. Previously, from 1997 to 2002 Mel Kroon held the position of Managing Director of Hooge Huys Verzekeringen N.V., part of the Utrecht-based SNS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/confex2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/confex2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/confex2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/confex2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/confex2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/confex2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/confex2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/confex2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/confex2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/windeurope.org\/confex2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}