Van Gelder has extensive international experience in the fields of strategy, retail marketing, logistics, e-commerce and IT. He has been the CEO of OPG since December 2005, and prior to this worked at Ahold, McKinsey & Company and MIP Venture Capital Fund in The Netherlands.
Van Poecke has worked in the oil & gas industry for over 20 years. Since its foundation in 1993 until late 2006, he was co-CEO of Petroplus, a pan-European midstream oil company with core activities in oil and refining and LNG storage.