Vosta LMG has announced that Rikke van Berk took office in his new position as the Director of Technology earlier this month.
Before joining Vosta LMG, Mr van Berk worked for several major players in the dredging industry over a period of 25 years.
In 1974 Mr van Berk started at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Mechanical Engineering, and graduated in 1981. After school he started his career at Exxon in Rotterdam at the oil refinery department.
In 1984 Mr van Berk switched to Van Oord and became a production estimator. Four years later he started at Damen Shipyards Group and had worked in positions in production and project management and as a managing director. In his last years at Damen Mr van Berk was responsible for all dredging equipment related activities of the group.
After twelve years, Mr van Berk decided he needed a different challenge and he started working for IHC Holland. His position there was the managing director of the yard in Kinderdijk.
In 2005 he started his own consultancy based on the idea of building a state-of-the-art yard for complex workboats in India. Mr van Berk is also supervisory board member of a foundation in the Netherlands.