NETHERLANDS – Aegon management board member Jan Overmeer is due to retire next year – to be replaced by corporate and institutional client chief executive Erik van Houwelingen.

Overmeer, 59, joined Aegon as a member of the management board in 1990, and will retire on 1 April 2006.

Over the past 15 years, he has been responsible for the corporate and institutional client divisions and Aegon asset management in the Netherlands, amongst others.

Overmeer is also a member of several pension fund asset management committees – positions he will continue to fill following his retirement.

According to an Aegon spokesperson, there will be a three-month handover period between January and April next year.

Van Houwelingen, 40, became CEO of Aegon’s management team for corporate and institutional clients in May. This marketing and sales arm is responsible for all institutional account management and sales activities.

Van Houweling, who joined Aegon in 1993 as an assistant controller, also rose to the rank of statutory director between 1998 and 2005. He was also chief operating officer between 2001 and 2002.

Elsewhere, the supervisory board of international dredging services group Royal Boskalis Westminster has appointed chief financial officer Hans Kamps as a member of the management board.

Kamps, 46, is also a board member of the Waterbouw industry-wide pension fund and various related trusts.

Furthermore, Boskalis management board chair Robert Gelder, 60, will retire in May 2006 following the shareholders’ general meeting.

Gelder will be succeeded by the current vice-chairman Peter Berdowski, 47, who has been a member of the management board since 1997.

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