Christiaan van Nielen

Christiaan van Nielen currently serves as General Manager at Impala Terminals since November 2023. Previously, Christiaan held various leadership roles at VTTI from September 2014 to July 2023, including General Manager for VTTI-NL, General Manager for ATPC, and Technical Director. Prior experience includes a tenure at Vopak from March 2006 to September 2014, where responsibilities spanned Terminal Manager for the Fujairah terminal, Project Manager developing the Terminal Master Plan for Europoort, and Operations Officer focused on process improvement. Christiaan's early career involved work at Philips Lighting as Production Manager and Supply Chain Management Consultant. Academically, Christiaan earned a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology and completed a CPIM in Operations and Inventory Management from APICS.