
Paul van Heerwaarden joined Bega in 2009 and was appointed chief executive in 2016 following four years as general manager of sales and marketing. Prior to that, he was with the Tatura Milk Industries subsidiary for three years, initially as chief financial officer and then as executive general manager.
Mr van Heerwaarden has over 30 years of experience in agribusiness, having worked in senior financial and management positions in Australia and internationally with several agribusinesses including Cargill and Ridley AgriProducts.
He has a MBA from Melbourne Business School, a Bachelor of Business from RMIT, and completed the Advance Management Program at Harvard Business School in 2014.