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Curriculum Vitae __________________________________________________ Personal Inez Bezemer-van Wijngaarden Profile After a “look in the kitchen” of the Dutch Competition Authority, I started my career as a lawyer in 1998 and specialised in European and Dutch competition law at three different law-firms. I advised clients in various industries and sectors, including the automotive sector, the real estate sector, the food (agricultural) sector, the retail sector and the elevator sector and assisted them in cases before the European Commission, the Dutch Competition Authority and the Dutch court. In 2007, I became in-house legal counsel at Friesland Foods where I joined the competition law team that was responsible for the Friesland Foods – Campina merger filing in Brussels. After the merger, I was appointed as Compliance Officer Antitrust and became responsible for the worldwide roll-out of the FrieslandCampina Antitrust Compliance Program. I intensely trained and advised the four business groups + corporate staff departments at FrieslandCampina for almost 8 years. Beginning 2014, my role extended into Senior Counsel Business Conduct, covering not only antitrust, but also other compliance-related topics like anti-bribery and trade sanctions. This was part of the introduction of a new code of conduct and whistleblowing procedure at FrieslandCampina to come to an even higher culture of integrity. I gained a lot of experience in how to successfully roll-out a new code of conduct and whistleblowing Name: Inez Bezemer-van Wijngaarden Address: Eemster 24, 7991 PP Dwingeloo Date of birth: 21 February 1973 Marital status: Married Children: 2 Tel: 00 31 (0) 6 20244788 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.inez-compliance.nl

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Curriculum Vitae __________________________________________________ Personal Inez Bezemer-van Wijngaarden

Profile After a “look in the kitchen” of the Dutch Competition Authority, I started my career as a lawyer in 1998 and specialised in European and Dutch competition law at three different law-firms. I advised clients in various industries and sectors, including the automotive sector, the real estate sector, the food (agricultural) sector, the retail sector and the elevator sector and assisted them in cases before the European Commission, the Dutch Competition Authority and the Dutch court. In 2007, I became in-house legal counsel at Friesland Foods where I joined the competition law team that was responsible for the Friesland Foods – Campina merger filing in Brussels. After the merger, I was appointed as Compliance Officer Antitrust and became responsible for the worldwide roll-out of the FrieslandCampina Antitrust Compliance Program. I intensely trained and advised the four business groups + corporate staff departments at FrieslandCampina for almost 8 years. Beginning 2014, my role extended into Senior Counsel Business Conduct, covering not only antitrust, but also other compliance-related topics like anti-bribery and trade sanctions. This was part of the introduction of a new code of conduct and whistleblowing procedure at FrieslandCampina to come to an even higher culture of integrity. I gained a lot of experience in how to successfully roll-out a new code of conduct and whistleblowing

Name: Inez Bezemer-van Wijngaarden Address: Eemster 24, 7991 PP Dwingeloo Date of birth: 21 February 1973 Marital status: Married Children: 2 Tel: 00 31 (0) 6 20244788 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.inez-compliance.nl

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procedure (including an entire compliance program) and how to truly embed this in the culture of an organisation. In October 2015, I decided to continue my career outside FrieslandCampina and to fully focus on what I enjoy the most: compliance training & advice, including the roll-out of a compliance program. Professional Experience Oct 2015 – current Compliance Training & Advice

Owner – work includes: - pragmatic, tailor-made and ad hoc (class

room and webinar) training & advice on compliance subjects as antitrust and anti-bribery in Dutch & English

- raising awareness for these subjects (alerts, do's & don'ts, Q&A's, e-learnings, compliance statements)

- setting up a code of conduct & speak up (whistle blowing) procedure

- rolling out a compliance program (policies & procedures, support from management, risk assessment, training, communication, audit & review)

- Review of documents (in-house risk analysis) - Sparring partner for the business (ad hoc,

pragmatic advice). Jan 2016 – Oct 2016 KLM Royal Dutch Airlines Ad interim in-house competition law counsel at

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines in Amstelveen. Nov 2007 – Sep 2015 Royal FrieslandCampina

In-house legal counsel at Friesland Foods in Meppel and later at Royal FrieslandCampina in Amersfoort. Work included: - Compliance Officer Antitrust (world-wide,

reporting to the CEO); - Senior Counsel Business Conduct (overall

compliance, with a specific focus on antitrust, anti-bribery, and trade sanctions, world-wide, reporting to the CEO)

- Secretary to the Complaints Commission; (“Klachtencommissie”).

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April 2006 - Oct 2007 Clifford Chance

Senior lawyer at the antitrust department of Clifford Chance in Amsterdam. Work included advising clients on all aspects of European and Dutch competition law (antitrust, dominance and merger control) as well as assisting them in cases before the European Commission and the Dutch Competition Authority.

Nov 2000 – March 2006 Boekel De Nerée Lawyer and later Senior Lawyer at Boekel de

Nerée in Amsterdam. Work included advising clients active in various sectors (including the food sector) on all aspects of European and Dutch competition law (antitrust, dominance and merger control) as well as assisting them in cases before the European Commission, the Dutch Competition Authority and the Dutch civil courts.

Member of the Recruitment Commission

(“Sollicitatiecommissie”). Official teacher of the Netherlands Bar

Association (“Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten”): competition law course.

Oct 1998 – Oct 2000 CMS Derks Star Busmann

Lawyer at CMS Derks Star Busmann in Utrecht. Work included advising and assisting clients on all kinds of competition law matters but also on other aspects of the law, including civil and commercial law.

April 1998 – Sep 1998 Dutch Competition Authority

Clerk (“Griffier”) at the Dutch Competition Authority. Work included managing all the incoming correspondence and up-dating the Director-General on the development of cases under investigation by the Dutch Competition Authority.

Education 2001 – present “Education permanent” in the form of many

legal and soft skill trainings. Examples are: drafting commercial contracts, legal English,

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time management, debating, influencing skills, project management.

Nov 2001 – July 2002 Grotius Academy: European and Dutch

Competition Law. 1998 – 2001 Official Professional Education Program of the

Netherlands Bar Association (“Beroepsopleiding advocatuur”); including courses on company law, procedural law, negotiation and drafting skills.

Sep 1991 – Nov 1997 University of Utrecht, “Master of Laws”

(“Meester in de rechten”). Oct 1995 – June 1996 Dundee University (Scotland) – Erasmus

exchange. Courses included: consumer protection and European law.

University of Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency

in English. Extra-curricular 2014 - 2015 Member of the Lustrum Committee 2015 of the

Dutch Association for in-house legal counsel (“Nederlands Genootschap voor Bedrijfsjuristen”).

2014 - Mentor for female (junior) outside counsel

(lawyers) as part of the Legal Women Mentor Traject.

2016 - Ladies Circle Assen (LC39) – service club.