Tim van Wingerden

Unlocking business growth and scale to potential | VP GM South East Asia, Middle East and Africa at Unilever Food Solutions | Global LT Exec Membership | AI Digital | Business Transformation & Strategy | Global Citizen

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

About

My passion is to develop and enhance $500m+ businesses & across countries with inspired teams. I have worked globally and led teams in 25+ countries in my journey. In my journey I have developed several sizable, profitable and sustainable businesses in B2B with double digit growth in sales and profit. Gathered unique experience by in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Africa, North and Latin America's, and I love bridging cultures and bringing people together for success.

Experience

  • Unilever (23 yrs 2 mos)
    • VP General Manager South East Asia, Middle East and Africa
      May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

      VP General Manager South East Asia, Middle East, Turkey and Africa for Food service (>$500m) end to end. Delivering fast growth in a big and diverse region and building a market leading foodservice business region throughout the countries we serve with our great local teams.

    • General Manager Greater Middle East and Africa
      Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

      Regional Managing Director | General Manager Greater Middle East (incl. Turkey & Pakistan) and Africa for Unilever Food Solutions (>$250m) end to end. Delivering fast growth in a big and diverse region and building a market leading foodservice business region throughout the countries we serve with our great local teams.

    • General Managing Director Middle East, Turkey and Africa
      Sep 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

      Regional Managing Director | General Manager Middle East, Turkey and Africa for Unilever Food Solutions (>$200m) end to end. Delivering fast growth in a big and diverse region and building a market leading foodservice business region throughout the countries we serve with our great local teams.