Jan Craps
Executive Director, Co-Chair of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
Budweiser APAC
Mr. Jan Craps was appointed as an Executive Director on 8 May 2019 and the Chief Executive Officer of the Group on 9 May 2019, and Co-Chair of the Board on 19 February 2020. Mr. Craps was also been appointed as a Director and the Vice Chair of Guangzhou Zhujiang Brewery Group Co., Ltd since 21 July 2020. Mr. Craps is presently the CEO Asia Pacific Zone of AB InBev APAC, which covers the Company’s operations in Greater China, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand, a role which he has held since January 2019.
Mr. Craps joined AB InBev in May 2002. Prior to joining AB InBev, Mr. Craps was a fellow with McKinsey & Company, Belgium. He acquired a range of international experiences in several senior marketing, sales and logistics executive positions in France and Belgium. In February 2011, he relocated to Canada where he was appointed the Regional Vice President of Quebec and then the Vice President of Sales of Canada for Labatt Breweries in October 2011. Mr. Craps became the President and Chief Executive Officer of Labatt Breweries of Canada in November 2014. In October 2016, he joined our Group as the Zone President of APAC South and was appointed CEO of Carlton & United Breweries based in Melbourne, Australia.
Mr. Craps obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Engineering from KU Brussels in Brussels, Belgium in July 1997 and a Master’s Degree in Business Engineering from KU Leuven in Leuven, Belgium in July 2000. He has been a Board Member of the Melbourne Business School in Melbourne, Australia since September 2018, and he has been a member of the Corporate Advisory Board of the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai, China since March 2019.
Ignacio Lares
Chief Financial Officer
Budweiser APAC
Mr. Ignacio Lares was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of the Group on 1 March 2021.
Mr. Lares joined AB InBev in 2007 as a global management trainee and was subsequently appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of Labatt Breweries of Canada from 2016 to 2018 and the Chief Financial Officer of the Middle Americas Zone at AB InBev from 2018 to 2019. Before his current role, Mr. Lares served as the Vice President, Technology and Analytics of the Middle Americas Zone at AB InBev.
Mr. Lares graduated from Queen’s University in Toronto with a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemical Engineering and holds a Master of Engineering, Mechanical, and Industrial, from the University of Toronto.