Annette has close to 20 years of experience in HR within big international corporations. She has held Specialist, Generalist and Business Partner roles  with increasing responsibilities in local, regional and global capacities and so developing an ability to navigate and lead Holistic People strategies in complex global matrix organizations. Currently she heads up the HR function for Diversey. Diversey is a global organization within the Bain Capital group (Private Equity), which is starting a exciting yet challenging journey to become a stand alone company. 

Before joining Diversey, Annette worked as HR VP for Mars Incorporated, one of the world biggest family owned corporations. As HR lead for the Food division within Mars she worked closely with the Commercial and Manufacturing Regional Leadership teams to turn around business results in the region.  She also lead the HR transformation across all Mars Divisions in EMEA, where she implemented a simplified HR operating model by establishing COE's, creating shared services for all HR operations & processes in EMEA and creating unique HR Business Partner roles.  Annette is value and purpose driven, wants to simplify businesses to to free up the organization to focus on value creation and tries to look for a learning moment in everything she experiences. Life long learning is something to strive for and one of her biggest learnings transitioning from Mars to Diversey is to never underestimate the power of engagement: How can we start engaging our customers if we cannot engage our own employees and when they are not able to bring their best self to work everyday?

Annette has a track record in talent development, change management and leadership development, coaching her peers in the other functions. Annette has worked and lived in several countries in Europe and recently relocated back to the Netherlands together with her husband Nick, her three children Niels, Thom and Anna and her dog and cat.