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Gerard Ruizendaal is the Chief Strategy Officer and Group Controller and a member of the Group Management Committee.He joined Philips in 1984 as manager of Accounting Policies & Directives in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. From 1986-1990 he held various positions as controller. Between 1991-1995 Gerard Ruizendaal acted as CFO for Philips Lighting Europe and as CFO for Philips Lighting Asia, based in Hong Kong and Singapore, until 1998. He was CFO for Philips Consumer Communications in Paris until 2001.
Gerard Ruizendaal was appointed Group Controller in 2001 and in addition head of Group Strategy in 2005. He became a member of the Group Management Committee on February 1, 2007.
Mr. Ruizendaal was born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in 1958. He holds masters degrees in both Economics and Business Law from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, as well as a degree in Auditing from the University of Tilburg and is a CPA under Dutch law. He is married. | 