Corporate Executive Board Members

Lodewijk Hijmans van den Bergh, Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Governance Counsel

Lodewijk Hijmans van den Bergh (September 16, 1963) is a Dutch national. Ahold’s shareholders appointed him to the Corporate Executive Board on April 13, 2010. Lodewijk joined the Company on December 1, 2009, when he assumed his responsibilities as acting member of the Corporate Executive Board and Chief Corporate Governance Counsel.

Prior to joining Ahold, Lodewijk was a partner and member of the managing committee of Amsterdam-based law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, where he was head of the corporate practice group. He was the resident partner of De Brauw’s London office from 1994 to 1998.

Lodewijk is the deputy chairman of the board of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

James McCann, Chief Commercial & Development Officer

James McCann (October 4, 1969) is a British national. He joined the company on September 1, 2011 when he assumed his responsibilities as Chief Commercial & Development Officer and acting member of the Corporate Executive Board. His formal appointment to this position and as member of the CEB will be decided at the Annual General Meeting of shareholders on April 17, 2012.

Prior to joining Ahold, James was Executive Director for Carrefour France and a member of Carrefour’s Group Executive Board. During the seven years before this, he held leading roles in various countries for Tesco plc. Prior to this, he worked for Sainsbury's, Mars and Shell.

Jeff Carr, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Jeff Carr (September 17, 1961) is a British national. He joined Ahold as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in November 2011. He will be nominated for appointment to Ahold’s Corporate Executive Board at its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders on April 17, 2012. Until then, he will be an acting member of the Corporate Executive Board. As CFO, Jeff is responsible for Ahold’s finance, insurance, real estate, and IT functions.

Before joining Ahold, Jeff was group finance director and a member of the board at UK-based FirstGroup, the leading transport operator in the United Kingdom and North America. He began his career at Unilever, and held senior roles in finance at easyJet, Associated British Foods, Reckitt Benckiser, and Grand Metropolitan. Jeff has served as CFO of listed companies since 2005, and has worked and lived in Europe and the United States.