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She was born in Amsterdam (The Netherlands) on October 28th, 1970.

Jaska de Bakker brings over 25 years of work experience and has worked and lived in Europe, Asia and the United States. Her career can be summarized as starting in strategy consulting for about seven years, then moving from a commercial director role via M&A to Finance. More recently she was group CFO in two global companies, for a total of 10 years. The extensive experience in a variety of leadership roles has brought her a combination of a strong strategic mind with broad Finance and M&A skills.

She graduated in 1994 from the University of Amsterdam with a Master in Econometrics. After that she started her consulting career at Arthur D. Little followed by a full time MBA at Kellogg Northwestern University in Chicago, US. She specialized in Strategy and Finance and graduated top of class. After a summer internship at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in 1998, she joined BCG again after graduation. De Bakker worked one year in Milan as BCG Ambassador (2001). In 2003 she left BCG to join CSM, a listed conglomerate, as a Commercial director for the Sugar Confectionery division. The division was spun off and sold to private equity in 2005 and subsequently rebranded to Leaf. She was asked to participate in the company and move to Italy to do an acquisition and integration for Leaf Italy (ao Sperlari). At Leaf Italy she transitioned into Finance. After the successful acquisition and integration of Cadbury Italy (Saila) she moved back to Leaf’s headquarter in 2009 to take the position of Corporate Director M&A.

In 2010 she became CFO and member of the Executive Board for DHV, a Dutch based global engineering and consulting firm. DHV merged with Royal Haskoning in 2012 and she became CFO of the merged company. She played a key role in the merger and integration and in defining and implementing the new strategy for the combined company. Early 2017 De Bakker joined Royal FrieslandCampina, a cooperative in the top 5 of global Dairy companies. She started as a regional CFO for Asia, based in Singapore. As part of that responsibility, she joined several boards in Asia, of which some were for listed entities. At the start of 2018 she became Group CFO and member of the Executive Board, based in The Netherlands. At FrieslandCampina she has played a key role in strategy definition and transformation, integrating reporting (financial and ESG), strengthening the finance and IT functions, driving digital and data analytics as well as issuing a listed hybrid bond. In August 2020 she joined the Supervisory Board of non-profit organization, The Ocean Cleanup and in March 2021 she became a Director in the Board of Faerch Group A/S, a Danish headquartered European company focusing on circular packaging. Mid 2021 she left FrieslandCampina.

She has been a member of the Company's Board of Directors since 28 April 2021, when she was elected from the slate presented by the Board of Directors. That slate achieved the majority of votes at the Shareholders’ Meeting. The Board of Directors has verified that Ms. De Bakker meets both the eligibility requirements as per TUF article 148, paragraph 3 and the Corporate Governance Code’s art. 2, recommendation 7, and is qualified to serve as an independent director of the Company.