Jhr. R.J.H. Boddaert

Owner Vereenigde Laboratoria Drs. W.H. Nagel B.V.

drs. P.L. Bom

General Manager Trouw Nutrition Nederland B.V.

Hydrogeologist, Free University Amsterdan (1985)
Project Leader / Vice President Bureau Tukkers BV, Woerden (NL), environmental consulting (1986-1991)
Managing Director Milfac BV, Leeuwarden (NL), environmental consulting (1991-2000)
Interim Manager for several laboratories, M&A, organization management (2000-2002)
Managing Director Laboratory PBR, Assen (NL), pharmaceutical trials laboratory (2002-2006)
Transition Manager, Eurofins, Breda (NL), UK, Bruxelles (B), M&A, organization management (2006-2008)
General Manager, MasterLab, Nutreco, Boxmeer (NL), animal feed laboratory, worldwide (2008- present)

drs. J.O. van den Ende MBA

Director NutriControl B.V.

ing. L. Golbach

Dr. A.M. Grotens

Director LabAssist BV

I graduated as a chemist at the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where I also obtained my Ph.D.

My laboratory career started in 1990, when I became Managing Director of EnviroLab. After EnviroLab, I became Technical Director at ALcontrol, after which I became General Manager at Analytico Milieu, that was acquired by Eurofins in 2002. From 2006 until 2012 I was COO Environmental at Eurofins, streamlining all European Environmental Labs (Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, UK and Italy).

From 2012 as Director/Owner of Lab Assist I streamlined all environmental labs of Eurofins outside Europe (Japan, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Brazil, Malaysia and Singapore). Since early 2018 I also performed streamline projects for labs outside the Eurofins Group, e.g. in Belgium and the UK.

ir. D.F.W. Hellemans

Dirk Hellemans is Chief Operating Officer, Northern Central Europe. He is also Managing Director for SGS in the Netherlands and in Belgium. Dirk completed his study career at the Universities of Ghent and Leuven in the early 1980s with two university titles: in Management and Chemical Engineering.

Dirk started his career at SGS in 1988. He held various positions and was active in many sectors. With all his experience and knowledge, he is one of the driving forces behind SGS in Europe. As a board member at SGS worldwide, he contributes to the global strengthening of SGS. His specialty? Life sciences.

Dirk has been a member of VRS for a long time. According to him, contact with all renowned laboratories nationwide is necessary to remain vigorous and innovative.

His mottos? "Always keep innovating" and "Knowledge makes stronger".

Dr. P.G.M. Hesselink

CEO Kiwa Nederland B.V.

Paul Hesselink studied Chemistry/Biochemistry at the University of Groningen. In 1989 he obtained his PhD in Biotechnology. He started his career at TNO where he worked for 8 years as a researcher and manager at companies and organizations in the food & pharmaceutical industry, fine chemistry and environmental processes.

The next 8 years Paul was employed by SGS as Country Manager of all TIC activities (oil & gas, agriculture, certification, technical inspections and environmental processes).

In 2003 Paul started at Kiwa where he was assigned to expand the business and to broaden Kiwa to an international player in the TIC market. Since then Kiwa has become more than twenty times as large.

Because of his great interest in achieving strategic goals and management Paul has had various ancillary positions in this field:
• Accreditation Committee and chairmanship at Fenelab;
• Customer Council (part of the Dutch Accreditation Council);
• Various advisory positions at Dutch governmental authorities, EU, CEN and OECD;
• Board member of the Global Board of the TIC Council.
Paul is also a sponsor of the Legal & Ethics Committee.

His mottos are: “Make knowledge work” and “Always ahead”.

ing. H. J. Bobbink

Director Qlip B.V.

Penningmeester VRS

2012-now: CEO Qlip BV, Ansynth Service BV, MLZ Holding BV & MLZ Vastgoed BV

2011-2012: General Manager Hypor Asia

2004-2011: Managing Director Alta Genetics & VP Sales & Marketing Europe

2001-2004: Manager New Business Hendrix UTD (a Nutreco company)

1995-2001: Editor in chief & publisher (Misset/Reed Business Information)

1987-1995: Editor in chief & PR-Marketing manager Topigs

1985-1987: Consultant LSLL

Since 2017 also: Treasurer VRS, Member Advisory Board Stichting KOM

ing. T. Joosten

Division Director Infra & Sport Kiwa KOAC B.V.

Ties Joosten (born in 1961) studied Land and Water Management at the Dutch School of Landscape Architecture in Velp, previously also known as the Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Science (Heidemij School). After having performed his liability to military forces as an officer his career started at the Heidemij company, nowadays know as Arcadis, a consultancy office for land development. At this company he has worked for 13 years. After the completion of an internal management course (University of Twente) he was manager of several departments and subsidiaries of Heidemij. One of these subsidiaries was Tukkers Milieu-research, where he, for the first time, was the manager of a laboratory.

In 1999 Ties started as general manager of ISA Sport (owned by the Dutch Olympic Committee NOC*NSF and TNO). This company was taken over by Kiwa in 2011. Since 2016 Ties is Division Director at Kiwa of the Division Infra & Sport. Part of this Division are two civil engineering laboratories in Groningen and Vught, and one sporttechnical laboratory in Arnhem.

Ties has held various administrative ancillary positions, both professionally and privately, such as:
• Board member of the Dutch Stichting Waarborgfonds Sport (SWS);
• Chairman ISSS (International Association for Sport Surface Sciences);
• Vice Chairman company committee of the Dutch Vereniging Sport & Gemeenten (VSG);
• Treasurer of the board of the Dutch Branchevereniging Sport & Cultuurtechniek (BSNC);
• Board member of Golfclub Almeerderhout;
• Founder and chairman of Hockeyclub Gorssel/Epse.

ir. K. van Malderen

Director Gezondheidsdienst voor Dieren B.V.

Kris Van Malderen has been active in the consultancy world for over 30 years, with lab data always playing a profound role. After studying at the Wageningen Agricultural University (WUR, The Netherlands), Kris first worked at AnteaGroup, where environmental consultancy and analysis prevailed. Since a few years, Kris is working at Royal GD with a focus on veterinary aspects. Veterinary primarily means immunology, microbiology, molecular biology and chemistry. So a broad and complex package. In particular because samples from all over the world are flown in to Deventer in view of the broad (more than 1000 types of analyses) and innovative character (R&D group of more than 30 employees).

As a director, the focus is less on the daily operational aspects. International expansion, management of participations, partnerships with suppliers and customers and long-term developments make the work fascinating every day!

ing. P.W. Platteschor

drs. L.H.A. Scholtis

Managing Director LabWing B.V.

President Union Internationale des Laboratoires Indépendants

Drs. Luc H.A. Scholtis (1956) is the 14th president of the Union Internationale des Laboratoires Indépendants. UILI was founded in Paris in 1959 and incorporated in 1961.

Mr. Scholtis has made a lifetime career in the private independent laboratory industry and laboratory computing and has been involved for over 30 years in international representation of laboratories. He founded, owned, and managed BCO Centre for Research a large private laboratory group active in Healthcare, Pharma, Food and Environmental Testing. With his joint venture partner Novartis, he operated the pan European laboratory Network Medinet. In 1988 he merged his laboratory group with Pro Analyse. Together they formed the Analytico Group that was sold to Eurofins in 2001.

After he sold his laboratories to Eurofins 20 years ago, he founded the internet application provider LabWing that operates a management platform and client portal for laboratory operations running its Labs-of-Time® software that has completely been developed based on his ideas. Mr. Scholtis has been the President of the Association of Consulting Chemists (VRS) -private laboratory owners in the Netherlands and is the secretary/ treasurer on the Board of the Dutch Industry Association Fenelab taking the lead in the IT and data standards committee.

He is the Dutch representative on the Board of Administrators of Eurolab aisbl and has been attending many Eurolab meetings since the Eurolab MOU was signed. He is one of the 6 founders of Eurolab in the Netherlands. Mr. Scholtis has a degree in Law from Utrecht University and got a doctoral degree from the Technical University Delft. He is active in many national and international standards committees, is a member of the ILAC laboratory committee. After taking the lead in forming a laboratory consortium with 9 laboratories focusing on COVID testing he has been appointed the coordinator of the 1st LAB consortium.

Dr. ir. M.C. Te Giffel

Managing Director Silliker Netherlands B.V.

Since 2018 I am the Managing Director at Mérieux NutriSciences (MxNS). MxNS is dedicated to protecting consumers’ health throughout the world, by delivering a wide range of analyses and supporting services to secure food & water quality.

The diversity of activities and working together with my enthusiastic colleagues to provide the right solutions for our customers is what motivates me!

After completing my MSc study Food Science & Technology and PhD at Wageningen University, I worked for a short period as PostDoc at Wageningen University.

In 1998, I joined NIZO food research; a (private) contract research company active in the food and life-sciences business.  I played a crucial role transforming NIZO from a Dutch dairy research institute to an international contract research company for food & health.

I held several positions at NIZO from 1998 to 2018. From 2008 – 2018 I was as operations director  member of the MT and shareholder of NIZO, responsible for all the R&D divisions and supporting services. I represented NIZO amongst others in the Top Institute for Food & Nutrition and Protein Competence Center.  

ing. P.A. Thijsse

Managing Director Vereenigde Laboratoria Drs. W.H. Nagel B.V.

I am a driven director with good networking opportunities thanks to the extensive experience in the contract laboratories. A "We cannot carry out an analysis" does almost not exist due to our expertise and perseverance. By setting priorities and being able to switch quickly, we have been able to carry out specific assignments for our customers on several occasions.
Through our customer focus and proactive attitude in combination with our independence, we have amply demonstrated to maintain a stable value within our niche markets.

ing. P.C.N. Vos

Director Nutrilab B.V.

With a biomedical background I lead a private laboratory that offers microbiological, molecular biological and microscopic techniques in addition to analytical
chemical techniques. After my education I did research for 4 years in the Academic Medical
Center in Amsterdam. I became an assistant manager at Serlabo bv. (Sister company of
Nutrilab bv), a food laboratory with a specialization on meat,after a sales position of 2 years. In my next job I was a manager at Eurofins Analytico for 13 years. I monitored, as Head Quality, the quality of the products of Sime Darby Unimills, a world player in palm oil industry. I have been running Nutrilab bv since 2015. In addition to this role, I also fulfill the role of vice-
chairman of Fenelab and chairman of the Agro Food Committee of Fenelab. In private life I am the chairman of the Network for New-foreign People, a network of volunteers who helps refugees to build their lives in the Netherlands.

drs. F. Vrolijks

CEO RPS Nederland B.V.

Voorzitter VRS

As Managing Director of the Dutch business, Frank leads a great variety of activities by over 400 professionals, ranging from laboratory services, through survey to property management and flood-protection. Over the years he has lead the company to be a single entity with one style of operation that is widely recognised and appreciated by clients and staff. He believes in technology and data-analysis as the main differentiators changing the life and work of many engineers.

Dhr. U. Waltman

Secretaris VRS

Director Sansidor Group

Udo Waltman has a background in business economics. He, amongst others, studied at Nijenrode Business University. As director of Sansidor Group, it’s his goal to create a sustainable future within the built environment.

Udo is specialized in themes as sustainability, asbestos and hexavalent chromium-6. As a director, he wants to really be part of these social developments. Aiming for market-wide safe and workable solutions, Udo is constantly in contact with specialists in the field, customers, government and chain partners.

Creating connections is one of the most important principles in all the work that Udo performs. For him, the secretary function at VRS is an ideal way to engage in constructive discussions with managements of all major laboratories in the Netherlands.

His mottos? "Be sure to connect" and "Build constructive".

drs. J.H.F. van der Wart

Director All Water Services B.V.

Hans van der Wart started his career after his Master Degree Chemistry at University of Leiden at Biochem Laboratorium a privately owned laboratory organization. After 10 years of experience in different management roles he joined ALcontrol (now Synlab) in 1998 and has been instrumental in the development of the Dutch ALcontrol Environmental Laboratory and the creation of its production focused culture. Since the years with ALcontrol he has undertaken a number of roles, including Director Operations for The Netherlands, Director Operations for Sweden, Group Production Manager and Business Director UK Water.

As of 2018 Hans started his own company AnyLabConsult that delivers consultancy and support for Inspection & Testing companies with strong focus on strategic planning, interim management and operational excellence.

Since May 2018 Hans joined the Board of Directors of All Water Services and holds a position in the company as MD. As of 1st November 2019 All Water Services has been acquired by Normec Group, a fast growing TIC company with headquarter in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Normec Group tests, inspects and certifies enabling organisations to innovate safely, quickly and (cost)efficiently.

Hans studied analytical chemistry at the University of Leiden and holds an MBA. Hans was board member of the Dutch federation of testing laboratories (FeNeLab) and chaired the Association of advisory Chemistry Laboratories (VRS) and the Accreditation committee of Fenelab.

Dhr. D. Wetjens

Managing Director Eurofins Food Netherlands B.V.

Dennis Wetjens is an entrepreneurial CEO with commercial focus, complex operational experience and a modern leadership style. As Regional Division Leader he is responsible for all Food, Feed and Water laboratories of Eurofins in the Benelux. The Food Benelux region contains, next to several microbiology and contaminant labs (pesticides, dioxins and a specialized port of Rotterdam lab), out of a chemistry lab, food consultancy, and a large sample taking network. Before Dennis started in the TIC industry he has worked for Air France KLM in several responsibilities of which the last years in the maintenance division where he has led several large complex operational departments/companies (eg aircraft maintenance and engine and component maintenance).