Ahold Delhaize names Alex Holt chief sustainability officer

Ahold Delhaize has announced that Alex Holt has been appointed chief sustainability officer and member of the executive committee of Ahold Delhaize, effective no later than June 1. Holt succeeds Jan Ernst de Groot, Ahold Delhaize’s chief legal officer and chief sustainability officer, who will retire May 31.

Holt is currently chief sustainability officer and member of the executive committee at Woolworths Group, one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest retailers, a role she has held since June 2021. Upon joining Woolworths in 2011, Holt held a number of roles across the company’s supermarkets business, leading various commercial teams, before becoming General Manager of Sustainability, Health and Quality in April 2016. Holt joined Woolworths Group in 2011 from Tesco, where she spent seven years in a number of roles in business improvement, merchandising and sourcing.

Holt, who is British/Australian, will move with her husband from Australia to the Netherlands. She added: “I am very excited to join Ahold Delhaize, a company that wants to contribute positively to the transition to a sustainable food system. I am looking forward to partnering with the executive team, sustainability and business leaders across the company and across the industry to tackle the challenges that we face together, and seize the opportunities that create the biggest impact.”

As announced earlier, Linn Evans will assume Ahold Delhaize’s chief legal officer role on April 15.