In 2001, appointed member of the Executive Board and from 1 October 2005 Chairman of the Executive Board/CEO. Joined HEINEKEN in 1984 and held various management positions in Rwanda (Sales & Marketing Manager), Democratic Republic of Congo (General Manager), Poland (Managing Director), and Italy (Managing Director). Executive Board responsibility for HEINEKEN Regions and Global functions: Human Resources, Corporate Relations, Supply Chain, Commerce, Legal Affairs, Strategy, Internal Audit and Company Secretary.

After 36 years of working as a chef waiter and barkeeper Peter was ready for the next step in life.
With a STiBON diploma in his pocket, Peter started studying Brewery Technology in Ghent, Belgium. After succesfully completing the study, together with Aldert Weitering, he founded Brewery Noordt in Rotterdam in 2015. They immediately grew to become the largest craftbrewery of Rotterdam. In 2017, Peter founded the first school for brewers in the Netherlands, together with some ‘beer friends’. Brouwerij Noordt won the Rotterdam Price of entrepreneurship in 2018. That same year Peter was voted Beerman of the Year. In cooperation with a well known entrepreneur in Rotterdam, he helped start a new beerpub and city brewery in one, which opened in the spring of 2018. With a lot still to come for 2019. Peter’s motto is: If you won’t improve yourself, you’d better get out of this business!

Andrew Curry is an award-winning journalist covering science, society, travel, history, politics, cycling and more. He has written for a wide variety of publications, from Architect and Bicycling to National Geographic, The New York Times, Rouleur, Science and Wired. His February, 2017 National Geographic story “Our 9,000-Year Love Affair With Booze” about the history of alcohol was translated into more than two dozen languages. He is a contributing editor at Archaeology.

He lives in Berlin, Germany.

My work with European Beer Consumers Union started many years ago. As elected National Chairman in Danish Beer Entusiasts 2010-2013 and Head of Copenhagen Beer Festival 2009-2015. In parallel with the work in the national board of DBE, I started my work as appointed delegate for Denmark in 2008. I was elected for EBCU Executive Board in 2012 and then Chairman from October 2018. The future work in EBCU will strengthen the national work in our member countries.

Grzegorz Ziemian, Co-Founder & CEO of Browar Stu Mostów, ESADE Business School MBA Class of 2012, previously worked in a financial industry in the United States and private equity in Poland. Upon return to Europe in 2010 earned an MBA degree and together with Arletta Ziemian and business partners began working on a craft brewery project in Poland, one of the biggest beer markets in the world. Planning phase completed at the end of 2013 and Browar Stu Mostów offered first products in December 2014.

Biography :

Dipl. Ing. Jan Šuráň
08. 09. 1956 Zlín

1976 – 81 Chemical university Prague, Institute of fermenting chemistry and bioengineering
1981 – 89 Reaserch Institute for Brewing and Malting Prague,
1989 – 90 Brewery Krušovice Brewmaster, manager of production
1990 – 91 Reaserch institut for Brewing and Malting Prague, team leader
1992 – PIVO Praha, Ltd.
2010 – President Czech and Moravian Microbreweries Assotiation

Languages : English, Russian

Since 1775, the Trumer brewery in Austria has been owned by the Sigl family, and is currently led by eighth-generation brewer Josef C. Sigl. In recent years, the standard-bearer for the brewery has been the multiple award-winning Trumer Pils.

Krishan Maudgal has more than 20 years of working experience in the Brewing and Beverage Industry in various international management positions. He worked on different industry-wide projects at the Belgian Brewers Association and is a member of the High Council of the Knighthood of the Brewer’s Mash Staff. During his career he has always been involved in commercial & managerial challenges and has given lectures to graduate students in marketing. After a two year International Executive MBA program, Krishan founded and became managing director of Maudgal Int. – BeerAgency in 2011. He provides strategic management and commercial services to the beverage industry worldwide.

Marco is as passionate about data as he is about a great specialty beer after a 40km mountainbike ride. With so many passionate craft brewers looking for a marketplace, he will give us an insight in how data can drive your revenue at the right foodservice location. The data and data science services from his company Datlinq are the rocket fuel for (digital) interactions between food and beverage brands and local businesses.

His mission is to connect brands to relevant locations via data and digital technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. With offices in Rotterdam, Antwerp, Strasbourg and Dusseldorf he leads a team of 45 passionate foodservice specialists, developers and data scientists.

Melissa Cole’s passion is life is getting people to learn as little, or as much, as they want about what she considers the finest social lubricant known to humankind – beer – and judges at the most respected competitions all over the world.
Along the way she has picked up awards for her writing, particularly for her innate understanding of beer and food matching and her latest book, The Beer Kitchen, has just been launched in a Dutch translation.
Melissa has also always been a staunch advocate for equality in beer, and last year was a key driver in launching the Everyone Welcome Initiative, designed for bars, festivals and breweries to clearly signal their commitment to inclusion in the beer world.

Managing Director at the Doemens Academy, teacher for Brewing Technology and responsible for the worldwide Beer Sommelier education at the Savour Academy Division of Doemens. He holds a Ph.D. in brewing science from the Technical University Munich-Weihenstephan. After six years scientific and educational profession at the TUM he got Head Brewmaster and Technical Director in a German brewery. Since 2009 he is a member of the Doemens Academy and World Brewing Academy faculty. Beer is profession and passion for him.

Big Drop’s founder, Rob Fink, is no stranger to challenging well-established business models. In 2010 he co-founded City law firm, Fenchurch Law having spotted a gap in the market for bringing claims against insurance companies.
Rob applied similar upside-down thinking for his next career turn when he found himself bucking the trend of his native City lunchtime drinking culture by seeking out low alcohol drinks. Massively underwhelmed, he wondered, why doesn’t anyone make alcohol-free beer that tastes just as good as full-strength beer?
It turns out there wasn’t a good answer to this and founded Big Drop Brewing.
Ironically, being an industry outsider gave him a massive advantage as a trailblazer. With no preconceived ideas about what brewing should be, Big Drop was the first brewer ever to focus exclusively on AF beer and the first to apply left-field fermenting techniques that meant no alcohol needed to extracted from the end product to meet the required maximum 0.5% ABV.

Roman is passionate marketing professional with 20 years of experience in Central Europe, Africa and Middle East. He believes that the mission of Plzeňský Prazdroj is to bring to consumers emotions and extraordinary experience delivered through their brands. And that Consumers are the bosses. Consumers give their feedback, they decide every day which brands they buy or not.

Since joining the BBPA in 2010, my role within the Policy Team has been to develop the scientific and technical activities and policies of the Association. This remit encompasses the many technical issues that are associated with beer production and the brewery supply chain, from grain to glass, including; brewery asset management, food safety for pubs and breweries, product quality and assurance and product labelling. I also drive the BBPA’s beer and wholesomeness agenda.

I have had extensive commercial and scientific experience throught my career in the brewing industry. Prior to the BBPA, I worked at Young and Co’s Brewery in London and then Campden BRI, where I was involved in both academic and commercial research projects as well as undertaking consultancy and troubleshooting issues relating to brewery production and product quality, beer dispense hygiene and new product development.

Started at IBB to develop its Export department from scratch. I want through the long process of defining an international development strategy. I developed routes to markets around the world for our small French craft breweries. Because of our low brand awareness, I invented many sales tricks to meet and convince key players. Then I had the opportunity to work as Export manager Europe for La Compagnie Française des Grands Vins, a leading company is the wine industry. I was used to work in direct with main European retailers, developing their private labels, but also with the biggest FMCG distributors in every European country. This experience allowed me to understand how important it is to adapt your product to local culture, to set up a competitive supply chain and have reliable local partners. Now back as Export Manager at IBB which had grown significantly. I am currently developing routes to European markets for some of our suppliers, opening subsidiaries and building local teams.

A fifth-generation brewer, Tim Cooper began professional life as a doctor, completing medical studies in 1979. He conducted medical research in Bristol to complete a Doctor of Medicine. He completed an Master of Science in Brewing before joining the family brewery in 1990.
While overseeing Operations at the brewery, Tim obtained an MBA from the University of Adelaide in 1998. He was Project Director for the development of the new Coopers Brewery at Regency Park, completed in 2001. He became Managing Director in 2002.
Tim was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2008 for service to the brewing industry, particularly through environmentally sustainable production and manufacturing practices, to professional organisations, and to the community.
Tim currently holds the role of President of the Institute of Brewing & Distilling, a members’ organisation recognised globally throughout the professions of malting, brewing, distilling and cider-making.