Harold holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the Twente University of Technology in The Netherlands and has worked for DSM and OCI for almost 30 years in several commercial and marketing functions. He has a large experience in the fertilizer industry, bringing to market new and development products, managing sales teams, managing product lines, optimizing sales revenues, optimizing product portfolio’s. He has extensive contacts within the international fertilizer world.

Since early 2017 Harold van der Zande is working at Stamicarbon, the innovation and license company of Maire Tecnimont. During the first years as Senior Business Development Manager. In this role he was responsible to diversify the portfolio of Stamicarbon into other fertilizer and non-fertilizer activities. Since mid-2020 he is leading the sales team of the Advance business line, responsible for the Services activities of Stamicarbon. In this role he is supported by a team of almost 20 professionals who market and sell the Services portfolio worldwide.