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Education
Ghent University.
Career
Thomas Cook has a turnover of around £9 billion, 31,000 employees and around 22 million customers. He trained at the Vlekho in Brussels. He also has a degree from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School which is part of Ghent University.
From 1977-1986 he worked for Procter & Gamble.
From 1986-1990 he worked for Douwe Egberts, the Dutch coffee brand, as deputy Marketing Director, later becoming its Marketing Director. From 17 May 2006 until 9 November 2011 he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Dutch engineering consultancy Grontmij.
From 2003-2005 he was the Chief Executive of the Conseil de la Publicité (Raad voor de Reclame - the Belgian Advertising Standards Board). From 1 October 2007 he was Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Dutch company Corporate Express.
He was also a Director of the private equity company GIMV (Gewestelijke Investerings Maatschappij voor Vlaanderen), the magazine publisher Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen (Verenigde Nederlandse Uitgeverijen), and the textile company Picanol since 18 April 2005.
Thomas Cook
He took over as Chairman of Thomas Cook Group on 1 December 2011. He had been Chairman Designate since 1 October 2011. In an interview for The Report on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 on 9 February 2012 he said that company executives should lose their pay if the company underperforms, by performance targets.
He said that shareholders were the wrong people to control company pay.
He lives in Merchtem in Flemish Brabant. He is a supporter of the Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (Civil Defense & V) party.
