Management Team

Niels G. Stolt-Nielsen, Director and Chief Executive Officer
Jan Chr. Engelhardtsen, Chief Financial Officer
John Wakely, Executive Vice President
Anke Schouten, Vice President: Human Resources
Peter Koenders, Chief Information Officer
Hans Feringa, President: Stolt Tankers and Terminals
Walter Wattenbergh, Managing Director: Stolthaven Terminals
Michael Kramer, President: Stolt Tank Containers
Pablo Garcia, President: Stolt Sea Farm
Christian Andersen, President: Stolt-Nielsen Gas

 

Niels G. Stolt-Nielsen Director and Chief Executive Officer
Niels G. Stolt-Nielsen Mr. Stolt-Nielsen has served as a director of Stolt-Nielsen S.A. since 1996 and as Chief Executive Officer since 2000. He served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of Stolt Offshore SA. from September 2002 until March 2003. He held the position of Chief Executive Officer of Stolt Sea Farm from 1996 until September 2001. In 1994 he opened and organized our representative office in Shanghai. He joined the Company in 1990 in Greenwich, Connecticut, working first as a shipbroker and then as a round-voyage manager.
Mr. Stolt-Nielsen graduated from Hofstra University in 1990 with a BS degree in Business and Finance. Mr. Niels G. Stolt-Nielsen is a son of Mr. Jacob Stolt-Nielsen. He is a Norwegian citizen.
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Jan Chr. Engelhardtsen  Chief Financial Officer
Jan Chr. Engelhardtsen Mr. Engelhardtsen has served as Chief Financial Officer of Stolt-Nielsen S.A. since 1991. He served as Interim Chief Financial Officer, Stolt Offshore S.A. from September 2002 until March 2003. He served as President and General Manager of Stolt-Nielsen Singapore Pte. Ltd. from 1988 through 1991. He has been associated with Stolt-Nielsen since 1974. Mr. Engelhardtsen holds an M.B.A. from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as undergraduate degrees in Business Administration and Finance. He is a Norwegian citizen.
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John Wakely  Executive Vice President
John Wakely Mr. Wakely has served as Executive Vice President of Stolt-Nielsen S.A. since January 2002, responsible for tax planning, internal audit and legal. In addition, Mr Wakely is the Stolt-Nielsen S.A. Board Secretary and also serves as Chairman of Stolt Tank Containers Leasing Ltd. He joined Stolt-Nielsen in 1988 and held various positions in the controllership, internal auditing and tax planning areas. He is also Chairman and a Director of Fiducia Ltd. Prior to that he was employed by BP. Mr. Wakely is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. He is a British citizen.
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Anke Schouten Vice President: Human Resources
Anke Schouten

Ms. Schouten was appointed Vice President Human Resources of SNSA in December 2007. She is responsible for HR planning and management for SNSA worldwide. Ms. Schouten joined the company as Director – Human Resources at Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group in 2005. She was previously with Basell since 2004 and before that spent 10 years at Lyondell Chemical Company, where she held a number of increasingly senior HR management positions. Ms. Schouten holds a Law Degree from the University of Utrecht, an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management and an undergraduate degree in marketing. She is a Dutch citizen.

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Peter Koenders  Chief Information Officer
Peter Koenders Mr. Koenders joined SNSA as Chief Information Officer on April 1, 2007. He is responsible for all SNSA’s business technology implementation based in Rotterdam. He has a Master's Degree in Information Management from Tilburg University. 
He has joined Stolt-Nielsen S.A. from Maersk, where he was appointed Director of Architecture, Strategy and Governance in 2006; before then, his career included a wide variety of IT management positions whitin Maersk, Sealand and with Asea Brown Boveri. He is a Dutch citizen.
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Hans Feringa President: Stolt Tankers &Terminals
Hans Feringa Mr. Feringa was appointed President of Stolt Tankers & Terminals in December 2007. He was previously Managing Director of Tanker Trading at the Stolt Parcel Tankers Division since 2003. Prior to this he was Managing Director of Stolthaven Terminals (2000 to 2003) and Asia Pacific Regional Director, Stolthaven Terminals (1996 to 2000). Prior to joining the company in 1996, he was Commercial Director of Van Ommeren’s Tank Terminal at Botlek, Rotterdam. He holds a BSc in Oceanography and received an MBA in 1987 from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in the Netherlands. He is a Dutch citizen.
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Walter Wattenbergh Managing Director: Stolthaven Terminals
Mr. Wattenbergh has served as Managing Director, Stolthaven Terminals since 2004. Prior to that he was Managing Director, Stolt-Nielsen Transportation Group B.V., where he headed deep-sea, coastal and barging activities in Europe since 2000. He was Director, Tanker Trading, SNTG B.V. from 1999 to 2000, overseeing SNTG’s European fleets. Earlier he headed the Stolt-Nielsen Inland Tanker Service, the company’s European barging operation. Mr. Wattenbergh joined Stolt-Nielsen in 1994 when the company acquired the barge brokerage and agency that Mr. Wattenbergh had cofounded in 1985.
Mr. Wattenbergh was educated in Belgium at Sint-Rita College, The Athenaeum van Berchem, and the Officers Academy of the Royal Belgian Navy. He is a citizen of Belgium.
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Michael W. Kramer President: Stolt Tank Containers
Mike Kramer Mr. Kramer was appointed President of Stolt Tank Containers in December 2007. He was previously Managing Director of STC, and before that General Manager for North & South America at Stolt Tank Containers (STC). He joined STC in 1982 and subsequently held a number of positions of increasing responsibility, including Business Development Manager (Japan), Business Development Manager (Singapore) and STC Budgeting Director (U.K.). He was previously with B.D.P. International, Inc.
Mr. Kramer received a B.S. from Penn State University (U.S.). He is a citizen of the United States.
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Pablo Garcia President: Stolt Sea Farm
Pablo Garcia Mr. Garcia has served as President of Stolt Sea Farm since May 1, 2005. From 1995 through 2005 he was President of the Iberia region for Stolt Sea Farm, in charge of the flat fish activities (turbot, halibut and sole) in Spain, Portugal, France and Norway. He joined Stolt Sea Farm in 1995 as General Manager of the Spanish turbot operations. Prior to that, Mr. Garcia worked as General Manager of the Spanish branch of the Doux Group. Pablo Garcia received a degree in Agronomic Engineering from the University of Cordoba in Spain with a specialization in food processing. He is a Spanish citizen.
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Christian Andersen President: Stolt-Nielsen Gas
Christian Anderson Mr. Andersen joined Stolt-Nielsen S.A. as President of Stolt-Nielsen Gas in September 2007. He was previously head of the LNG business for BW Gas ASA. Prior to this Mr. Andersen spent 14 years at Fearnleys, as a shipbroker in the LPG department and three years as a trader and founding partner in Amanda LPG Trading. He holds an Master's Degree in Business and Marketing from Oslo Business School. He is a Norwegian citizen.
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