Executive Board

Bas Schreuders

Chairman of the Executive Board, CEO (1954, Dutch Nationality)

Mr Schreuders has been a member of the Executive Board since 2012 and brings extensive institutional knowledge of the organisation, its stakeholders and governance framework. His longstanding Board tenure provides continuity and stability within the Group.

In addition to his role as Senior Counsel, overseeing legal affairs, Mr Schreuders is responsible for Group-level oversight of Human Resources, Sustainability and the Corporate Legal Structure. In this capacity, he ensures organisational alignment, leadership continuity and cultural consistency across the segments, safeguards alignment with ESG commitments and regulatory developments, and oversees the optimisation of the Group’s legal structure.

He further supports the execution of the Group’s strategy, ensures alignment with key stakeholders, and contributes to a controlled and well-governed implementation of strategic transitions.

Mark Gils

Member of the Executive Board, CFO (1985, Dutch Nationality)

Mr Gils is a member of the Executive Board and joined B&S in 2021 as part of the senior finance team. He most recently served as Finance Director of B&S International, acting as the direct counterpart and right hand to the Group CFO, with full exposure to segment performance, reporting structures and financing dynamics.

Prior to joining B&S, Mr Gils spent 15 years at Deloitte, where he held various audit and assurance roles and built extensive expertise in financial reporting, internal controls, governance and regulatory compliance.

As CFO, Mr Gils is responsible for the Group’s finance, reporting and audit functions. In this role, he ensures robust financial control and compliance, while driving the transition towards autonomous and accountable business segments, including strengthening segment-level P&L ownership, working capital discipline and financial transparency.

Mr Gils is a Registered Accountant (RA).

Niels Groen

Member of the Executive Board, COO (1987, Dutch Nationality)

Mr Groen began his career at B&S in 2011 and held various senior leadership roles across multiple business segments until 2023, building broad operational and commercial expertise within the Group.

From 2018 to 2023, in parallel to his executive responsibilities, Mr Groen served as a member of the Executive Board of B&S Group, where he contributed to key strategic initiatives and Group-level transformation projects.

Prior to rejoining B&S, Mr Groen served as Chief Commercial Officer at Union Coop in the UAE, where he was responsible for core commercial functions, including category management, sourcing, pricing, private label development and promotional strategy.

As COO, Mr Groen is responsible for the execution of the Group’s strategy of autonomous and accountable business segments. In this role, he drives operational efficiencies across the segments, oversees Group-level operations and logistics, including supply chain optimisation and cost control, and ensures service-level performance. He further leads the alignment and sharpening of segment-specific strategies, strengthens commercial discipline and performance ownership, and oversees relevant Group IT functions to support systems alignment, scalability and data-driven decision-making.

Maurice Riegel

Member of the Executive Board (1978, Dutch Nationality)

Mr. Riegel began his career at B&S in 2001 and has held various senior leadership roles within the Food Segment since then. Over more than two decades, he has developed deep sector expertise and strong operational command of the Segment’s commercial and supply chain dynamics.

In his current role as Managing Director of the Food Segment, Mr. Riegel has distinguished himself through hands-on engagement leadership, disciplined execution of value-enhancing initiatives, and a strong focus on organisational development. Notably, he led the launch of the King of Reach digital platform, strengthening the Segment’s digital footprint and customer reach. His leadership style combines operational pragmatism with transformational capabilities, enabling both performance delivery and structural improvement.

By extending Mr Riegel’s responsibilities to include a position on the Executive Board, several critical business domains will be driven at Group level, including digital transformation, leadership and talent development, and e-commerce. In this context, he will accelerate the Company’s digital roadmap across segments and platforms, strengthen succession planning, capability building and performance culture, and align online growth strategies, platform optimisation and cross-segment digital integration.

This expanded mandate ensures that these key transformation areas are centrally steered while remaining closely embedded in the business segments.