The people who sign the drawings.
Hextal is led by engineers, not financiers. Every member of the executive board has spent time on a construction site, and most of them started their careers in hard hats, not boardrooms.
The executive board is collectively responsible for the strategy, risk management, and operational performance of the Hextal Group. Each member has spent time on a construction site — most started their careers in hard hats, not boardrooms.
Margriet van Doorn
Margriet joined Hextal in 1997 as a junior site engineer on the Eemshaven coastal defence project.
Karl-Heinz Bruckner
Karl-Heinz oversees all operational delivery across the group.
Elena Ferreira Santos
Elena joined Hextal from Deloitte in 2014 and was appointed CFO in 2019.
James Calloway
James runs Hextal's third-largest market, delivering major rail, hospital, and flood defence programmes across the UK.
Anna Lindqvist
Anna leads the group's decarbonisation programme, including the proprietary CB-7 recycled concrete blend and the embedded carbon tracking ledger.
Pieter de Vries
Pieter has spent his entire career at Hextal, starting as a dredging cadet in 1992.
Thomas Hartmann
Thomas founded Hextal/Lab in 2014 as a three-person skunkworks.
Henrik Johansson
Henrik oversees Hextal's renewable energy and grid infrastructure practice, which has delivered 14.2 GW of generation capacity across wind, hydro, and solar.