The leading team behind our excellent logistics.
Good logistics is about
knowing all possible options. Excellent logistics is about delivering the best
solution for the job at hand. Our management team members are all driven by this
vision.
Erik Mulder - CFO
Erik holds a master’s
degree in fiscal law and earned his stripes with management positions in both
finance and logistics. He started his working career as a state tax-accountant
and advisor at the National Tax Office (Belastingdienst) and later on at KPMG
Meijenburg and HLB Nannen.
Erik then was national news within the football
scene, because he became the youngest Treasurer at a professional football club
(FC Groningen) in history of Dutch professional football. Under his financial
leadership FC Groningen grew to become a top club within Dutch football. For
example, Erik played a leading role in the planning, development and
realization off the new football stadium "Euroborg”. In 2016 he became a member
of the Supervisory Board of the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB). Erik
is our Chief Financial Officer since 2012.
Besides visiting and
watching professional football matches, Erik’s biggest hobby and finest moment
of the day is smoking a nice and good quality sigar.
Stuart Ferguson - Group Director UK & QHSE
Stuart started his working career
with an engineering apprenticeship at Dunlop, where he stayed for a few years. His
engineering experience then led him to Denmark where he started working for DFDS,
one of Europe’s leading Ferry Operators. At DFDS Stuart held several operational
positions.
On his return to the UK he began working for German company
Freudenberg, a global automotive manufacturer. At Freudenberg Stuart worked his
way up to become a Production Manager being responsible for 150 men and a
turnover of £30 million. After twelve years Stuart joined another
multinational, Schmitz Cargobull, a world leader in trailer manufacturing. This
was a more demanding role, as he was responsible for 350 men and a £50 million
turnover. In 2003 a change in direction saw Stuart join the Lubbers
organization, where he is now Group Director UK and Group Director QHSE.
Stuart loves sports; he is a keen
cyclist, likes to play golf and is a fanatical long distance walker. Through his
walks he raised many thousands for charity. He likes spending his weekends at his
holiday home walking the family Great Dane or supporting Football Club Newcastle
United.
Tony Tailford - Executive Director UK
By many Tony is seen as the
operational heart of Lubbers. And for the right reasons; At the age of 17 Tony
started working with his father who was an own operator truck driver, together
they developed Ron Tailford Haulage (RTH) in the UK and by the age of 25 Tony
was running the company.
Tony is self taught and learned all aspects of how to
run a transport company, including running the yard, planning, developing the
fleet and managing of staff. Tony built RTH into a dominant UK based
International Transport Company specialising in the energy sector. RTH became
an agent for Lubbers in the UK shortly after the millennium and after a
successful period working together merged fully in 2005. At this time Tony and
Ronald Lubbers were the 2 shareholders of Lubbers Transport Group. Since then
he has had a leading role in the growth and development of Lubbers as a
dominant global player in complex transport and logistics. To further
facilitate the growth ambitions Tony and Ronald decided in 2013 to sell a part
of the shares to private equity firm AAC Capital.
Tony is now our Executive
Director UK. Tony is a passionate supporter of
Newcastle United Football Club and visits the home games as much as possible.
He enjoys golf, walking and watching his son play rugby.
Rob van Paassen, Group Director Finance & IT
Rob is a true financial
specialist. After getting his bachelordegree in economics, Rob
began his career in Finance. As a senior Financial Administrator he helped to
further develop the financial set-up of professional football club FC
Groningen. This experience and new developed network made him decide to start
as a consultant at Yacht Finance and take on Financial Controller jobs for larger
companies like UMCG, Stork Technical Services and Univé.
In 2005 Rob decided to
offer (interim) management and project services as an independent entrepreneur
and started his own company. In 2013 Rob started an interim job for Lubbers and
we are happy that he joined our team permanently soon after. Rob is now our
Group Director Finance & IT.
In his spare time Rob
likes to travel, listen to music and enjoy (technical) gadgets. But his biggest
hobby is watching and visiting professional football matches.
