Meike Van T Hoen

Meike Van T Hoen is chief executive officer of Railnova, based in Brussels, a role she took up in January 2026. She had joined the company's board of directors in June 2024 and served as a member until December 2025.

From September 2016 to December 2025 she worked at Knorr-Bremse Rail Vehicle Systems, where she handled technical project management for vehicle modernisation, then bid and sales support for vehicles within RailServices, then led the product management team for spares and extended services, and from November 2021 directed product management for digital products and services.

Before that she spent nine years at Bombardier Transportation, beginning in June 2007 in a group-wide lead buyer function and as a strategic buyer, going on to lead strategic purchasing, to take on technical project management for new rail vehicle developments, and to serve as product family manager for heavy metros until August 2016. She started her career as a strategic buyer at thyssenkrupp Presta AG in June 2006.

She studied industrial engineering with a specialisation in electrical engineering and renewable energy at Fachhochschule Bremen from 2002 to 2006, with exchange semesters at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston in 2001 and at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria in 2004.