Joep A. J. van Beurden is a businessperson who has been the head of 9 different companies. Currently, he occupies the position of Chief Executive Officer of Kendrion NV and Co-Managing Director at KENDRION (Markdorf) GmbH and Co-Managing Director at Kendrion Holding Germany GmbH (both are subsidiaries of Kendrion NV).

He is also on the board of the University of Twente, Global Semiconductor Alliance (former Chairman), Adyen NV and The Antenna Co. NV.

In the past he was Chief Executive Officer of NexWave Solutions SAS and Chief Executive Officer for Nexwave, Inc. (France) (a subsidiary of NexWave Solutions SAS), Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director at CSR Ltd. (UK), Chief Executive Officer for Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd. and Chief Executive Officer of Auxora, Inc.

Mr. Van Beurden received a graduate degree from the University of Twente.