Dudley Eustace

Dudley Graham Eustace (3 July 1936 – 11 July 2024) was a British businessman specialized in financial restructuring who held many executive functions in Dutch companies.

He was vice-president and CFO of Philips^[1] where he was second-in-command to CEO Cor Boonstra. He resigned in 1999.^[2] In November 1999, he was appointed chairman of the board of Smith & Nephew.^[3] He was named interim chief financial officer of Ahold in 2003 to restructure finances after the company's $880m fraud scandal.^[4][5]

Eustace joined the supervisory board of Aegon in 1997, eventually becoming Chairman of the board until his 2010 resignation.^[6] He sat at the board of VNU, now called The Nielsen Company, from 2006 to 2009.^[7] He was also Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of KPN,^[8] Vice-Chairman of Hagemeyer and was a member of the Supervisory Board of Stork N.V.

Eustace died on 11 July 2024, at the age of 88.^[9]