Robbert Kessels

Robbert Kessels earned a master’s degree in international business at Maastricht University. He began his career at Cargill Rotterdam as commercial trainee at the trading desk. He went on to fill various positions in Cargill’s tropical oil trading department in Indonesia and Singapore over a seven-year period. In 2012, he left Cargill after more than 12 years to join SIPEF, where he was appointed marketing commodities manager in 2013. In 2014, he was appointed chief commercial officer and a member of the executive committee.