Powerlist Members
Agnieszka Kominkiewicz-Hibbert
EMEA and APAC legal director | Bird
Agnieszka Kominkiewicz-Hibbert has served as the Netherlands EMEA legal director for California-based scooter share company Bird since July 2018, where she has built the EMEA legal team which currently is made up of four dedicated lawyers. Kominkiewicz-Hibbert leads them to support business in making cities more liveable by reducing car usage, traffic and carbon emissions. …
Alexandra Olbrechts
General counsel company lawyer | Napoleon Games
Passionate about media and innovation, Alexandra Olbrechts has held various roles within many different fields within the media sector, dealing with a wide range of negotiations and contracts in constantly evolving technological and professional circumstances and regulations. Developing an interest in intellectual property law, media and new technologies, she studied an additional LLM in intellectual …
Alexis Vandeginste
General counsel Belgium | bpost
Considered an expert in identifying strategic business opportunities, Alexis Vandeginste is highly knowledgeable in dealing with complex enterprises, acquisitions, divesture and major transactions. After having worked for eight years as a lawyer in a prestigious law firm, Vandeginste started his in-house legal career at Belgian Post Group and one of the largest companies and employers …
Alix Aspeslagh
Real estate legal counsel and development manager | Decathlon
French sporting goods retailer Decathlon has over 1,500 stores in 49 countries and is one of the largest sporting goods retailer in the world. As of July 2017, Alix Aspeslagh serves as the real estate legal counsel and development manager for Decathlon in Belgium, a role she was promoted to after serving as the organisation’s …
Anna Hägg
Head of legal affairs and corporate governance | Inter IKEA Systems
Anna Hägg has extensive experience serving as an in-house counsel in high-profile international commercial environments. She has sat on several boards and has previous experience of being part of management teams and advising senior management. Hägg joined Inter IKEA Group Belgium in April 2007 as senior legal counsel, reporting directly to general counsel of Inter …
Annabelle Vos
General counsel | Fugro
Before joining Fugro, the leading provider of geo-intelligence and asset integrity solutions for construction, infrastructure and natural resources, Annabelle Vos was a corporate litigation lawyer and M&A lawyer in private practice at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek for 10 years. At the beginning of 2016 she was asked by Fugro, one of her clients at the …
Anne-Bérangère Sudraud
Head of legal business development M&A and regulation | ENGIE
As the head of legal business development M&A and regulation, Anne-Bérangère Sudraud reports to the director of legal, strategy, regulation and public affairs of Engie Benelux. She possesses strong leadership capabilities of leading with strong legal expertise on high profile business developments and M&A matters. She also serves as a deputy ethics and compliance officer …
Antonio Benítez-Donoso Tarascón
Head of legal and compliance | KPMG
Antonio Benítez-Donoso Tarascón started his career as a lawyer in 2004 at one of Spain’s largest law firms, Uria Menendez. After six months in the corporate department, he switched to the litigation department where for almost four years he says he ‘laid the foundation for my future career’. At this time his work focused on …
Aurore Versele
Compliance and legal officer | Crédit Agricole CIB
Crédit Agricole CIB is headquartered in Belgium and provides Benelux based companies with financing, capital markets and investment banking operations. A key part of the company’s legal division and support is local head of compliance and legal, Aurore Versele who acts as a local coordinator for legal issues of the finance institution. Versele also assists …
Axel Viaene
General counsel and company secretary | GrandVision
Axel Viaene started his career as an international associate attorney with The Coca-Cola Company at the company’s global headquarters in Atlanta in 1997. He moved to Amsterdam to take up the role of Benelux legal director for Dell Computers in 2000. In 2003, he moved to Starbucks as EMEA legal director based in Amsterdam, eventually …
Baukje Dreimuller
General counsel member of the executive committee | Renewi
European waste management company Renewi was created in 2017 following the merger of Shanks Group with Van Gansewinkel Groep. It has big plans to be part of the solution to reducing waste and avoiding pollution; one of the main environmental problems facing society today. With 8,000 employees working at 200 sites across Europe and North …
Beatrice Nelson-Beer
Chief legal officer | PM-International
Right from the start of her career, PM-International’s chief legal officer Beatrice Nelson-Beer made the conscious decision to give her work an international approach. Something which Nelson-Beer admits ‘put her in a very challenging, but at the same time unbelievably fortunate situation that gave me that competitive edge’, constantly requiring her to learn, change, adapt …
Bernard van der Voort
Corporate director legal affairs and company secretary | Royal HaskoningDHV
Bernard van der Voort joined Royal Haskoning in 1997 during a time of significant growth, starting with 1,400 staff in 1997 to 3,500 in 2012. In that year Royal Haskoning and DHV merged to the largest Dutch engineering and consultancy firm, employing 7,000 staff having more than 35 operating companies worldwide and being active in …
Bruno Favre
Deputy general counsel and compliance director - specialised nutrition | Danone Specialised Nutrition
With 18 years of in-house experience in the EMEA and Asia Pacific regions, Bruno Favre, has vast experience of leading in multicultural environments in the food and beverages sector. Favre joined Danone Specialized Nutrition in July 2017 after diverse in-house roles in Europe and Asia, where he says he deals with Danone’s ‘dual projects to …
Catherine Delsemme
European legal counsel | Panattoni
Catherine Delsemme has served as the European legal counsel for real estate developer, Panattoni Europe the last 11 years. She previously practiced as a lawyer for Wildgen, Partners in Law for three years. Delsemme has had instrumental involvement in advising the company in its activities of building factories and investing in logistics expansions across Europe.