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Benno Groeneveld
President
651-227-9603
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Benno Groeneveld has worked as a journalist, translator and interpreter for more than 40 years.
After graduating from the University of Amsterdam with a degree in English language and literature, he taught English in a Dutch High School for two years and then moved to New York to work as a foreign correspondent for Dutch and Belgian media.
Groeneveld moved to St. Paul in 1994 when his wife, Kathleen Wilson, was offered a job at the Science Museum. He is a dual national with both a Dutch and U.S. passport.
Kathy and Benno have a son, Matt, who also has two passports and lives and works in San Francisco.
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Dirk van Toor
Vice-President and Director of Logistics
651-224-1719
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As a former army officer and presently a telecommuncations and IT developer, Dirk van Toor came to Minnesota 14 years ago to start a family
and a new career together with his wife Jocelyn.
By now we have two children, Winston and Suzanne and somewhere along the lines I started working for the State of Minnesota Bureau
of Criminal Apprehension.
We live on Saint Paul's West Side and have enjoyed hosting several NAAM events at our home.
I have been on NAAM's board of directors since 2004 and have in 2007 entered into my second three year term as a board member.
In my present capacity on the NAAM board, I perform logistic support for NAAM events, provide storage and keep the inventory of NAAM's goods and
assets other than the financial and human ones.
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Sander Biehn
Treasurer
651-293-1134
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Born in the USA of American parents, Sander moved in
1997 to the Netherlands. When the joint venture with
KPN ended a year and a half later Sander found
himself back in Minnesota, but the Netherlands had
bewitched him: the country, people, language and
culture.
He is happy to serve on NAAM's board. He is
married, has two kids (Ella and Hadrian) and lives
in St Paul, MN.
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Kathryn Fakkeldij
Director of Events
651-688-2350
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Kathryn is a native Minnesotan. In May of 1997, she met her native
Dutch husband in Minneapolis. Peter was brought here on a temporary
engineering project. Kathyrn and Peter live in Eagan.
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Martin Vermeulen
Director of Marketing and Advertising
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Martin was born in Amsterdam and moved to the US in 1989. He worked in construction before joining his wife in the legal profession. Martin has an
11 year old son (Sam) and a 15 year old daughter (Rachel). After living in both rural and urban Minnesota, the Vermeulens have settled in St. Cloud.
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Elisabeth Beelaerts
Website Director and Club Photographer
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After moving from Rotterdam to Minneapolis with my husband Alexander and my three kids (8, 6 and 4 years old), I joined the NAAM in 2005 and became a general boardmember. Besides being a stay-at-home mom, I started my own photography business (children and family portraiture on location).
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