VOSTA LMG is glad to announce that effective on August 3^rd Mr. Rikke van Berk took office in his new position as Director Technology at VOSTA LMG. Before joining VOSTA LMG, Mr. van Berk has gained a lot of knowledge and work experience by working for several major players in the dredging industry during the last 25 years. The addition of Mr. van Berk’s extensive knowledge and expertise in the maritime and dredging industry will further improve VOSTA LMG’s leading position as worldwide supplier of dredging technology. The new Director Technology will have his office in Amsterdam, but will be responsible for the technical division worldwide.

Rikke van Berk says, “I’m happy to join VOSTA LMG as the business concept of cooperation with competent yards worldwide offers unique benefits to our dredge operators.” His background perfectly compliments VOSTA LMG’s concept.

VOSTA LMG welcomes Rikke van Berk at the company and wishes him a lot of success and prosperity in his work as the new Director Technology.

Background

In 1974 Rikke van Berk started at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Mechanical Engineering, and graduated in 1981. After school he started his career at Exxon in Rotterdam at the oil refinery department. In 1984 Rikke van Berk switched to Van Oord and became a production estimator. Four years later he started at Damen Shipyards Group and had worked in positions in production and project management and as a managing director. In his last years at Damen Rikke van Berk was responsible for all dredging equipment related activities of the group. After 12 years Rikke van Berk needed a different challenge and he started working for IHC Holland NV in Sliedrecht. His position here was managing director of the yard in Kinderdijk, The Netherlands, where he became responsible for the Trailing Suction Hopper Dredgers. In 2005 he started his own consultancy, which is very successful. An interesting project with this consultancy was to build up a state-of-the-art yard for complex workboats in India. Next to this Rikke van Berk is supervisory board member of a foundation in the Netherlands.