Over the last 53 years, PRIMA has established a reputation as the go-to network hub for the entire fibre value chain – from forestry, minerals and chemicals companies through to pulp and paper makers, merchants, publishers, printers, packaging producers and consumers of paper and board products.
Alongside an award-winning programme, PRIMA provides the perfect environment for you to connect with senior decision makers and key players from across the industry and build on those all-important business relationships.
Marco Eikelenboom is Chief Executive Officer at Sappi Europe since April 2021. His professional career started in 1992 with KNP Fine Paper in The Netherlands and after several commercial positions in Maastricht and Paris, he was appointed Manager Corporate Planning when KNP Leykam was acquired by Sappi Ltd. in 1997. Following this corporate strategy position, Marco took on the role as Managing Director of Sappi Benelux and left in 2002 to Sappi’s global Head Office in Johannesburg to become Marketing Director. Marco came back to Brussels as Director Marketing & Sales in 2005 and after the acquisition and integration of M-Real Graphics In 2008, he assumed the global Marketing & Sales responsibilities for the Graphics business of Sappi Europe as Vice-President Marketing & Sales. Marco holds a Master of Science in Business Administration from the Erasmus University Rotterdam and followed executive management courses at INSEAD, IMD and MIT Sloane School of Management. He lives with his wife and dog Dingo in Brussels and has 3 sons at University in the Netherlands.
António José Pereira Redondo has been CEO of The Navigator Company since January 2020, and a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee since April 2007.
In 1987 he joined Soporcel, the company that was eventually incorporated in Portucel Soporcel Group, now The Navigator Company, where he started on the Technical and Production departments and led Marketing and Commercial departments. As Chief Commercial Officer until 2019, he was responsible for the areas of Marketing, Sales, Revenue Management, Supply Chain, Logistics and Product Development.
António Redondo holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Science and Technology College of Coimbra University (1987), also had university studies in Business Management and holds an MBA from Universidade Católica Portuguesa (1998).
Sven Ombudstvedt has held senior management positions in the chemical and pulp and paper industries for more than two decades.
Through his positions in Norske Skog, SCD SAS, Yara International and Norsk Hydro, he has gained international experience in leading large global organisations both from the board room and from the CEO seat.
Sven Ombudstvedt has been with Norske Skog since 2010. He has a Masters in International Management from Thunderbird (USA) and a Bachelor in Business Administration from Pacific Lutheran University (USA).
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Since 2003, Dr Hans Grünfeld has been managing director of VEMW, a Dutch association of non-domestic energy and water consumers, representing companies and organisations from industry, the financial, health care, educational and other sectors in The Netherlands. From 2007 to 2010, he was president of IFIEC-Europe, the European association of industrial energy consumers.
Having served VEMW since 1999, Hans has extensive experience with the liberalisation and integration of the European gas and electricity markets. Before joining VEMW, he worked for McKinsey & Company (researcher) and Rand Europe (policy analyst).
Hans Grünfeld received a Ph.D. from Delft University of Technology and holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Masters in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam.
Rupert Taylor is Head of Corporate Sector Advisory at NatWest. He is focussed on sector-specific corporate finance advice for large global corporates. He has worked in the Paper and Packaging sector for over 10 years of his career, working with and advising a large number of global businesses in the sector.
