Koninklijke Brill : N.V., - Peter Coebergh departs Brill as CEO

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Peter Coebergh departs Brill as CEO

Brill, the international academic publisher, announces today that Peter Coebergh will leave Brill as CEO when his term of office will come to an end after the annual general meeting of shareholders that is currently scheduled for 25 May, 2022.

Peter Coebergh (1961) joined Brill in 2015 and held the position of EVP Marketing & Sales before being appointed as CEO in 2018. Prior to joining Brill, Peter held several senior executive positions at Springer Science & Business Media (now Springer Nature), which he joined in 2001.

Brill is grateful to Peter Coebergh for successfully leading the company over the past four years. Under his leadership, Brill has further prepared itself for a continued positive development as a leading publisher in the field of humanities.

The Supervisory Board intends to nominate a successor prior to the upcoming annual general meeting of shareholders and will inform the market once the new potential CEO has been identified. Peter Coebergh and the Supervisory Board are committed to ensuring a seamless handover of duties. The successor is then expected to focus particularly on Brill's strategic and operational development, building further on the foundations that Peter and his team have laid in the last years.

Robin Hoytema van Konijnenburg, Chairman of the Supervisory Board: "On behalf of the Supervisory Board, I want to recognize Peters leadership and thank him for his tireless efforts. Faced with an unprecedented pandemic, Brill has continued to perform strongly with an enhanced focus on our digital offering. Also, under his leadership, Brill has taken a significant step by acquiring the German publishing house Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht. I want to thank Peter for his contribution and wish him the very best."

Peter Coebergh added: "I have thoroughly enjoyed my six years at Brill of which for four years as CEO. Driven by the new mission statement launched in 2019 (Mission Statement), we have been able to strengthen our business by significantly expanding in Germany through acquisitions and by serving our authors and customers with ever more and better digital services. At this point I want to thank all my colleagues at Brill and V&R for their contribution to the realization of our strategic plans. And to say that all Brill's stakeholders can rely on my full commitment until the end of my tenure."

Trading conditions and full year 2021 expectations remain in	line with Brill's Trading Update published on
28 October, 2021.
Leiden, 10 February, 2022
Robin Hoytema van Konijnenburg	Peter Coebergh
Chairman Supervisory Board	Chief Executive Officer
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About Brill

Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections. Commitment to Open Access and the latest publishing technologies are at the core of Brill's mission to make academic research available for the scholarly community worldwide. The company's key customers are academic and research institutions, libraries, and scholars. Brill is a publicly traded company and is listed on Euronext Amsterdam NV. For further information, please visit brill.com.

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