Education
Harvard Business School. Harvard University; Utrecht University.
chairman director executive board
Harvard Business School. Harvard University; Utrecht University.
Ruys holds a degree in commercial law from the University of Utrecht and a Master"s degree from Harvard Business School. He started his career for Unilever where he worked as marketing director and chairman for various subsidiaries of Unilever in the Netherlands, Colombia and Italy from 1974 to 1992. In 1993, Ruys was appointed Executive Board Member at Heineken North.V. He was Chief Executive Officer from 2003 to 2005.
Company-Chairman of Early Career Researchers Europe.
Member of the Supervisory Board of Gtech Holdings Corporation, United States
Member of the Supervisory Board of Sara Lee / Delaware International B.V.
Member of the Supervisory Board of British American Tobacco
Member of the Supervisory Board of Algemene Bank Nederland Amro
Member of the Supervisory Board of Schiphol
Member of the Board of Advisors of International Association of Students in Economic and Commercial Sciences Netherlands
Member of the Board of Advisors of Young Advisory Group (YAG)
Member of the Board of Directors of SIFE Netherlands
Member of the Supervisory Board of National Fund for the Preservation of Art Treasures
Member of the Board of Netherlands Society for International Affairs
Member of the Supervisory Board of Veerstichting
Member of the Supervisory Board of Foundation The Rijksmuseum
Member of the European Advisory Board of Harvard Business School
Member of the Supervisory Board of Stichting laluz
Member of the Board of Value of The Value Agency.