Jan Cornelis Van Der Linden

Director at United Breweries

Mr. Jan Cornelis van der Linden, is an MBA in Business Administration from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands. He has completed various Management Development Programs from Harvard Business School, Wharton – University of Pennsylvania, INSEAD Business School and University of Michigan. He joined Heineken in 1999 as Management Trainee, and since then has worked in increasingly senior international management positions in Sales, Marketing and General Management. From 1999-2008 he worked in Africa, Ireland and was part of the Management Team at Group Commerce, Heineken International, in the capacity of Global Brand Director Amstel. In 2008 he became Executive Board Member of Nigerian Breweries Plc., and joined the Management Team at Heineken UK in 2012. In 2015 he was appointed as Managing Director of Heineken China and in August 2019 he was appointed as Managing Director of Heineken Vietnam. Currently, Mr. van der Linden is President Asia Pacific, Heineken.

Mr. Jan Cornelis van der Linden has been on the Board of UBL since June 01, 2020.

Timeline

  • Director

    Current role