Melle Kruisdijk has been constitute Chief Executive Officer of Dalsem , effective from 23 November 2024 .
Jan Pieter Dalsem will retire as Managing Director and take the role of Senior Advisor to Dalsem and COFRA ’s Executive Chair of Sustainable Food , David Levin , in gain to COFRA ’s broader radical .
Dalsem is a leading developer of gross , high - tech glasshouse projects worldwide and was acquired by COFRA Holding in January 2022 . Founded in 1932 , Dalsem is deeply rooted in the innovative Dutch gardening industry and has delivered large - scale greenhouse projects in more than fifty country .
David Levin , Executive Chair of Sustainable solid food at COFRA Holding , comment : " I am delighted to receive Melle to COFRA as CEO of Dalsem . Controlled Environment Agriculture will be all-important to meeting the worldly concern ’s food need over the amount decades . Melle incarnate COFRA ’s approaching to doing business organization for good while delivering customer delight . He bring a wealth of experience in engineering , energy solutions , variety direction , and character leaders , so he is ideally place to scale Dalsem ’s business while focusing on greater sustainability .
I want to congratulate Jan Pieter for his achiever in make Dalsem into the technology power station that it is today and in construct an owing kinfolk business . He has pass Dalsem through a period of unprecedented growth and change and transform the ship’s company into one of the leading world histrion in Controlled Environment Agriculture . I look forward to his continued counsel as a fourth-year advisor , as Melle and his team position Dalsem for its next phase of growth . "
Melle Kruisdijk , the new Dalsem CEO , said : " I am thrilled to join Dalsem , which has earned a globular report as a trusted cooperator in the Controlled Environment Agriculture sphere . With the clime crisis and a constantly expand universe , I am positive that the populace want more high - tech greenhouse – which are even more sustainable – to ensure authentic food for thought production . I calculate forward to ferment with the Dalsem and COFRA squad to scale the company further , particularly in the US and Europe , as we attempt to innovate and bring forth more sustainable greenhouse . "
Jan Pieter Dalsem , current Managing Director of Dalsem , point out : " It has been an incredible exclusive right to head Dalsem , with so many gifted colleague , through a 30 - twelvemonth period of international growth . I thank our client in the US , Europe , and around the world for their support , and I am certain that under Melle ’s leaders , Dalsem will go from strength to strong suit . "
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