Profile of Titus Wouda Kuipers
Titus Wouda Kuipers is a business economist with focus on the consumer packaged goods industry. In his career, Wouda Kuipers can look back on more than 28 years of experience and several professional stations at well-known international companies.
From 1989 to 1995, Kuipers worked among others for Porsche, the Dutch Navy, Nissan, Douwe Egberts and Unilever. In 1996 he switched to marketing and sales and worked as General Manager for Imperial Brands in the Netherlands until 2006. The Dutch company Douwe Egberts Van Nelle was assumed by Imperial Brands in 1998.
From 2006 to 2011 Titus Wouda Kuipers was Managing Director of the tobacco supplier Imperial Brands in the DACH region before being nominated as Regional Director Western Europe and Divisional Director Europe and for Australasia (2011 to 2014). From 2015 to 2017, he was Global Operations Director at Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of Imperial Brands.
Since 2016, Wouda Kuipers is a member of the Executive Committee of Imperial Brands and, since 2017, CEO of Fontem Ventures, also a subsidiary of Imperial Brands. Titus Wouda Kuipers is a member of the Supervisory Board of Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH and of the International Contact Center of the Tobacco Industry (IKK). Moreover he was a member of the board of the brand association e.V. until 2017.
