General
Annual Report 2024: National Promotional Institution
23 mei 2025
June 23, 2022
3 minutes
Rinke Zonneveld appointed Invest-NL's new CEO
The Supervisory Board is pleased to have appointed Rinke Zonneveld (1971) as Invest-NL's new CEO. The appointment is for a period of four years, starting on 1 September 2022. Zonneveld will succeed Jan Pieter Postma who, as Interim CEO after the departure of Wouter Bos, has temporary final responsibility for impact investors and will focus primarily on his position as Finance & Risk Director from 1 September onwards.
Jan Nooitgedagt, Supervisory Board Chairman: 'We are delighted to welcome Rinke to Invest-NL. We are convinced that Rinke will be the CEO to lead Invest-NL into the next phase of its development with enthusiasm and connection. His extensive knowledge and experience in financing innovative companies and projects make him the CEO that Invest-NL needs in order to make the Netherlands more sustainable and innovative.'
Rinke Zonneveld is currently Managing Director of InnovationQuarter, which is the regional development agency for the Dutch province of South Holland. 'After a fantastic time at InnovationQuarter, I am really looking forward to starting at Invest-NL on 1 September,'saysRinke Zonneveld.'This is a wonderful opportunity to create even more impact and work on sustainability and innovation in this country. Together with entrepreneurs, co-investors and many private and public partners, I want like to tackle the major social transitions our country is facing. Since Invest-NL's outset, I have worked with Invest-NL's people several times. I look forward to calling them my colleagues.'
Rinke Zonneveld's career
Over the past nine years, Rinke Zonneveld has developed the organisation InnovationQuarter into one of the most active investors in the Netherlands. InnovationQuarter is also responsible for attracting foreign companies to the region, setting up large-scale innovation programmes and projects and organising joint ventures between entrepreneurs, knowledge and education institutions and authorities in South Holland.
Before he joined InnovationQuarter, Zonneveld held various management positions in the field of innovation, entrepreneurship and industrial policy at the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy. Rinke Zonneveld currently fulfils a variety of managerial and supervisory roles in the financial sector and at the intersection of private/public collaboration.
