Maarten van den Bergh


Maarten Albert van den Bergh is a Dutch businessman.
Van den Bergh is the son of Maria Meijers and Sidney James van den Bergh, long-term chairman of Unilever and Dutch Minister of Defense in 1959. His grandfather Samuel van den Bergh was one of the founders of Unilever. Van den Bergh spent 32 years at the multinational oil company Shell, where he rose to non-executive president of the "Royal Dutch Petroleum Company", one of the two parent companies of the "Royal Dutch / Shell Group", and to vice-president of the committee of the managing directors of the "Royal Dutch / Shell Group". In 2001, he left Shell to become chairman of Lloyds TSB, a financial services company based in the United Kingdom.
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In 2005, The Times named him the most powerful businessman in Great Britain.