Herna Verhagen

Herna Verhagen is a member of the Supervisory Board of Royal Philips N.V. where she serves as chair of the Remuneration Committee and member of the Audit Committee. As of May 28, after the AGM of Adyen, she becomes Supervisory Board member at Adyen. Subject to her appointment, Herna Verhagen will succeed as Chair of the Supervisory Board of Adyen later this year. 


Previously, Herna was the CEO of PostNL N.V. for over a decade until 2025. As CEO of PostNL, Herna Verhagen has led her team into transforming the mail business into a financially sound logistic e-commerce service company. Praised for being an excellent leader, builder and connector with strong business acumen as well as for her sympathetic and authoritative manner. 


Herna Verhagen has an extensive experience with non-executive board roles. Latest she held a Supervisory Board position at ING Group N.V. until April 2026. Her style is characterized as supportive and at the same time challenging. She works form a holistic view shaped by an understanding of the strategic direction and thorough preparations. She is / has been chair of the remuneration committee, chair of the nomination and governance committee, member of the risk committee, member of the audit committee and vice chair of the Supervisory Board.

Herna holds a master’s degree in business law, a master’s degree in human resource studies and an Executive MBA from Stanford University. 

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Will Farrell

Federated Hermes
Assistant Manager, EOS
London

Will co-leads the climate change theme at EOS, the stewardship arm of Federated Hermes Limited, where his coverage includes companies in Europe and Australia, primarily financial services, energy, chemicals, and materials. Prior to joining EOS, Will worked in the energy and infrastructure investment banking team at Macquarie Capital, where he specialised in renewable energy. Before that, Will held a number of roles across the UK climate policy space, including as a parliamentary researcher for Rt. Hon. Chris Skidmore MP on climate and energy issues, and as a climate and economic policy analyst at a diplomatic institute. He was appointed as a voluntary adviser to Rt. Hon. Alok Sharma MP, President of COP26, on preparations for COP26 after co-founding a Westminster climate policy group in 2019, which engaged MPs and Members of the House of Lords to advocate for more ambition on climate action in public policy. Will has a Bachelor’s degree (1st Class Honours) in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.