Charleroi, Walloon Region, Belgium, September 2025 — Jan-Willem de Groot has started as Chief Financial Officer at Brussels South Charleroi Airport (BSCA), Belgium’s second-busiest passenger airport. He will steer group finance, capital allocation, and performance to support BSCA’s growth, punctuality leadership, and sustainability agenda.
Most recently, Jan-Willem was CFO Benelux at SERIS Group (Brussels), leading finance across security services and technology-enabled solutions and driving margin, controls, and transformation across a 2,000-employee regional business.
Before that, he served at KONE Belgium & Luxembourg as Delivery Operations Director and earlier Finance Director (Leadership Team member), covering finance, customer service, fleet, sourcing, and modernization project delivery—recognized with a Finance Transformation award in 2019.
Earlier career highlights include senior leadership across DHL (CFO Netherlands, CFO Canada, Managing Director Netherlands, Director Global Controlling, and HQ finance roles managing global reporting/FP&A) and a PwC foundation, plus interim CFO work at SINH Building Solutions and budget committee chairmanship at the European Lift Association (ELA)—building deep expertise in multisite operations, turnarounds, and large-scale P&L stewardship.
About Brussels South Charleroi Airport
Brussels South Charleroi Airport (BSCA) is Belgium’s second airport by passenger traffic and the second airport serving the Brussels capital region. It connects to 100+ direct destinations, ~50 exclusive to BSCA, and is operated by six airlines: Ryanair, Wizz Air, Pegasus Airlines, Air Corsica, Volotea, and Air Arabia Maroc. Known for award-winning punctuality and service quality, BSCA sustains 3,000+ on-site jobs (~800 directly) and 20,750+ indirect/induced jobs. The airport continues to grow on a sustainable, responsible model focused on passenger comfort, the airport community, and local residents.
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