Board of Directors

Chairman of the D'Ieteren Group S.A. Board of Directors and Nominations and Remuneration Committee. Member of the D'Ieteren Group Strategic Committee. Chairman of Belron Group S.A.

Nicolas D’Ieteren holds a BSc Finance & Management from the University of London. He is also a graduate from the Asia Int’l Executive Program and Human Resources Management in Asia Program (INSEAD). He led projects at Bentley Germany and Porsche Austria. He worked as a finance director of a division of Total UK from 2003 to 2005. Since 2005, he is the managing director of a private equity fund.

Non-executive Director - Permanent Representative of Nayarit Participations S.A. - Vice-Chairman of the Board of the D'Ieteren Group SA - Chairman of the D'Ieteren Group SA Audit Committee and member of the Strategic Committee.

Frédéric de Vuyst holds a Bachelor of Laws (Université de Namur), a BA & BSc Business and Finance (London Metropolitan University) and an Executive MBA (EDHEC Paris). He is Managing Director of Nayarit Participations, a private investment firm. Previously, he held various management and international positions at BNP Paribas Corporate & Investment Banking. Ultimately, he was Deputy Head Corporate Banking Western Europe, Head of Business Development Investment Banking and member of the Management Board Corporate Banking in Belgium. He holds various directorships including Belron, D’Ieteren Automotive, TVH, PHE, and the Advisory Board BNP Paribas Fortis.

Non-Executive Director

Michèle Sioen holds a Degree in economics. She is currently the CEO of Sioen Industries, a multinational specialised in technical textiles. She holds various directorships in listed Belgian companies, notably Sofina and Immobel. She is Honorary Chairwoman of the FEB (Federations of Belgian companies). She is the Chairwoman of Kanal (museum of contemporary art) and director of concours Reine Elisabeth, Europalia and Fedustria.

Independent Director - Permanent Representative of HECHO S.R.L. - Member of the Audit Committee and Nominations and Remuneration Committee of D'Ieteren Group S.A.

Hugo Destoop holds a Master’s in Chemical Engineering (Ecole Polytechnique – ULB), an MBA (INSEAD), and a Corporate Venture and Innovation degree (INSEAD).

He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Marine Metals, an early-stage industrial venture dedicated to ship recycling through sustainable, safe, and profitable dismantling methods to recover high-quality homogeneous scrap steel. Previously, Hugo was CEO of Euronav, which he joined in 2004. He served as CFO from 2008 to 2019, before becoming CEO and Chairman of the Management Board and Sustainability Committee. During his tenure, Euronav grew into the world’s largest crude oil tanker operator listed on the NYSE and Euronext. He began his career with Mustad International Group, working across the US, Europe, and Latin America. In 2000, he co-founded First Tuesday (US and Latin America), the largest global meeting platform for high-tech entrepreneurs and investors. He later joined Davos Financial Corp, a UBS-affiliated private equity fund, as an Investment Manager.

Hugo currently sits on the Boards of Victrix (family office) and EBE Shipping. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Great Whale Conservancy and Together in Safety, a non-regulatory industry consortium connecting the maritime sector to improve safety performance.

Independant Director - Permanent representative of Allegra Patrizi unipersonelle. Member of the D'Ieteren Group S.A. Nominations and Remuneration Committee.

Allegra Patrizi holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Insead, and a Master and DEA in engineering from Ecole Normale Supérieure, France. From August 2023, Allegra has been a member of the executive committee of Virgin Money Bank, where she sat as Managing Director Business and Commercial in charge of all customers and the bank's revenue base across all of the bank's products and geographies. She left in December 2024 following the acquisition by Nationwide. Allegra has over 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry, both working for large international companies and in an advisory capacity. Educated in France, she has extensive international experience, having worked in the UK, Benelux, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Romania, the US and Russia. Among the youngest ever to be elected as a Partner at McKinsey, Allegra was a member of the leadership teams for banking, wholesale banking, and asset management and insurance. In addition, she contributed to a number of initiatives aimed at shaping the financial landscape in Europe. Prior to working in the insurance sector, Allegra held various positions at the UK asset management company F&C Investments. She joined Prudential Plc in 2009, where as a member of the CEO office she was involved in helping define the group strategy and managing the US business, before focusing on risk, culminating in her appointment as Prudential’s Group Risk Director in 2013. Allegra joined Aegon at the end of 2015, when she was appointed Chief Risk Officer of Aegon NV and a member of Aegon's Management Board as of 2016. She was appointed CEO of Aegon The Netherlands in 2021. From 2017 until 2022 she was also Supervisory Board Member, and Chairperson of the Risk Committee of Leaseplan NV, world leader in auto and truck leasing and mobility solutions.  And in 2021-2023, she was Vice-chair of Insurance Europe ECOFIN, as well as member of the Board of the Verbond van Verzekeraars. In her spare time, Allegra has authored cook books and competed in horse-riding international eventing competitions under the Belgian flag.

Independent Director - Permanent Representative of LSIM S.A.

Wolfgang holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (USA) and a Master in Applied Economics and Business Administration from the Louvain School of Management.

During his 30 years of experience in finance and private equity in Europe and the US, he has invested in numerous sectors, including healthcare, speciality chemicals, niche industries, services, leisure and media. Since 2005, he has been the Managing Partner of Apheon, a mid-market private equity investment company with €4.5 billion under management.

Prior to this, he had spent most of his career in investment banking (mergers and acquisitions) at Lehman Brothers in New York and London, where he became co-head of the European M&A Healthcare team.

Wolfgang de Limburg Stirum’s current other positions are: Director of Haudecoeur, Telenco, opseo, Saverto, Vidacura, Fair Doctors, Fiabila, Immobel and VPK Group.

Independent Director - Permanent Representative of Diligencia Consult S.R.L. Member of the D'Ieteren Group S.A. Nominations and Remuneration Committee.

Diane holds a Master in Management Engineering from Solvay Business School, a second year MBA from Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Charlottesville, VA, USA, a financial analyst’s diploma awarded by CFA Institute, and an Executive Master in “SME Director” from Solvay Business School.

Since 2015 until January 2026, Diane served as Chief Executive Officer of Ziegler Group, an international transport and logistics organisation founded in Brussels in 1908 employing more than 3,200 people and generating a turnover of 1.3 billion Euros. Ziegler has a very dense world network across 156 operational sites located in 16 countries.

As CEO and a member of the Board of Directors, her main achievements have included updating and implementing the group’s strategy, its vision and its values, speeding up the pace of innovation and digitalising and defining the company’s sustainable development strategy. Trends Tendance elected her “2022 Manager of the Year".

Before joining Ziegler Group, Diane began her career at Degroof Bank - Asset Management and Private Banking - as a fund manager and asset management co-ordinator.

Diane is a member of the Rotary Club and YPO, as well as a regional advisor to Banque de France.

Independent Director – Permanent Representative of Norawild S.R.L. - Member of the Audit Committee and Nominations and Remuneration Committee of D'Ieteren Group S.A.

Thierry le Grelle holds a Master in Business Engineering from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management.

He is currently Partner at Vendis Capital and co-Chairman of Tom&Co, a leading pet care retailer, which he acquired from the Delhaize Group through a management buy-in in 2016. He previously held the roles of CFO and CEO, where he oversaw the company’s carve-out, transformation and growth.

Prior to this, Thierry spent 13 years in investment banking at Lazard as Managing Director, specializing in mergers and acquisitions across the consumer, retail, and industrial sectors. He also advised private equity firms and family offices in major transactions, working out of Paris, London, and Amsterdam. Thierry began his career in investment banking at ABN Amro in Amsterdam.

In addition to his role at Vendis Capital and Tom&Co, Thierry serves as a board member of Finasucre, an agro-industrial holding company, and is Chairman of the Queen Paola Foundation.

Non-Executive Director - Permanent Representative of Olivier Chapelle S.R.L.

Olivier holds a Master in Mechanical Engineering from the Louvain-la-Neuve University and a License in Business Administration from the Solvay Business School. After having held operational roles in international companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, Owens Corning, and Faurecia, he joined Recticel in 2010 as Director and Chief Executive Officer until August 2023. He is currently the Chairman of Schréder, Director and Member of the Remuneration & Nomination Committee of Cofinimmo, Director and member of the Strategic and Remuneration & Nomination Committees of Elia Group, Director and investor in three scale-up companies, and Advisor to Sofindev Private Equity Partners.

Non-Executive Director - Permanent Representative of Alcamara B.V.

Charles-Antoine Leunen obtained a Master of Laws at the KU Leuven in 1996 and a LL.M./Business degree from Northwestern University School of Law and JL Kellogg School of Management in 1999. He is a member of the Brussels Bar and was a partner at international law firm Linklaters LLP until 2024, where he specialised in corporate and finance matters for investment holding companies and industrials. Charles-Antoine is also an independent director of Floridienne SA, a director of Crédal SCES and a member of the supervisory committee and of the Impact & ESG Committee of Junction Growth Investors. He is a research fellow in insolvency law at the KU Leuven.