Arend Schot new Director Country & Sales at Bejo

Date:11-29-2024

On January 1st, Arend Schot will join the Bejo management team as the new Director Country & Sales. 

In this, he succeeds Martin van der Voort who will retire next year and has been at the helm of the Sales and Marketing organisation at Bejo since 2011. From January, he will hand over his responsibilities to Arend Schot. Bejo is busy preparing its organisation for future further growth. It has been decided to fully concentrate country management under the responsibility of the new management position Director Country & Sales. 

Arend Schot brings with him many years of knowledge of and experience in the international seed sector. At Syngenta, he has held various strategic management positions, of which the last eight years as Head Vegetable Seeds Europe, Africa and Middle East.  

Managing Director John-Pieter Schipper: ‘Bejo is a strong international growing company. The consumption of vegetables and the demand for high-quality vegetable varieties for different climate and growing regions continues to increase. Making cultivation more sustainable is pivotal to this. There is a lot of sales and organisational development in both established markets and markets that are new to Bejo. I am looking forward to welcoming Arend Schot to our management team and am convinced that with his knowledge, expertise and enthusiasm he will be able to give excellent direction to our growth process. Our ambition is to make high quality vegetable varieties available to all professional growers worldwide.’