The engine in different sectors
About Us
VSH United is the dependable engine in varying business branches: Trading, Logistics, Foods, Real Estate, Investment, and Detergents. Through associated companies, VSH UNITED is also involved in the insurance and hotel business.

We are operating in 4 countries: Suriname (headquarters), Guyana, the United States of America and the Netherlands.

The headquarters in Paramaribo, Suriname provide the strategy, the financial and administrative services and acts as a legal and human resource counsel for all the 22 subsidiaries, which are independent operation companies.
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Our Core Values
VSH United is built on
Your Success is our desire
VSH United focuses on long-term and fruitful relationships with mutual benefits for both sides. That is why we do not focus on selling. Instead, we focus on helping customers, partners, and shareholders build their sustainable success. Our customers, partners, and shareholders are part of the VSH ‘family’ for long-term and ever-growing relations.
Trust in our relationships and personally responsible for all our actions
Even though VSH United is a big company, we stand for customized service. The relationship with our customers, partners, and shareholders is a personal one because this is how we create trust, an important aim in our business activities. By having one-on-one relations, we proudly carry the responsibility for our individual actions.
Creating a better company for a better world
With a greater focus on social and planetary responsibilities and how our actions today impact those around us, now and in the future, we are continuously working to improve health-, environmental- and social funding policies.
Creating a better world for others, starts with ourselves, with ethical corporate governance in our VSH-companies.
The story of VSH over the years
In 1958 Jim Healy and Leo Tjin a Djie Founded the first company that ultimately led to become VSH
1958
Toeti Froeti Bar and Grill
1959
Head office – van ‘t Hogerhuysstraat 9-11 Since 15 November 1973
1973
Opening Steel Fabricating (VSH STEEL) plant 15 May 1982
1982
31 August 1990 Purchase of substantial shareholding in De Nationale and Hotel Torarica major companies in the insurance and hotel sectors
1990
First Export order of the Steel Company (VSH STEEL) to French Guiana
1993
7 August 1998 - The Company increases its shareholding in Consolidated Industries Corporation, a household detergent manufacturer, to 42%.
1998
CIC first export to the Caribbean
1999
September 2000 we are able to purchase a block of shares in Margarine- en Vettenfabriek N.V. (VSH FOODS)
2000
October 2001 VSH-United (USA) L.L.C. commences operations in Miami, Florida offering air- and ocean freight services in Suriname
2001
December 2002 Margarine- en Vettenfabriek (VSH Foods) received first export order to Curacao.
2002
06 November 2015 official opening of the new subsidiary VSH-United (Guyana) Inc in Georgetown, Guyana.
2015
01 December 2017 VSH-United (Nederland) BV is founded.
2017
01 January 2018 VSH-United (Nederland) purchases 51% of IFC Holding BV in the Netherlands.
2018
On 11 September 2018 VSH REAL ESTATE GUYANA INC. is founded
2018
June 2019 - discontinuation of the steel production facility.
2019
16 January 2020 , VSH Tech BV is founded in the Netherlands
2020
1 November 2021 - VSH HOLDING GUYANA INC. founded in Guyana.
2021
22 March 2022 – N.V. VSH Tech is founded in Suriname
2022
Management Directors of the Holding
The holding is managed by a Management Team consisting of a CEO, CLO and CFO. Monitoring of the Management-performance in relation to goal sets and advisory of the management team on relevant matters, is done by a Supervisory Board of Directors.
P. Healy
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
M. Ramsundersingh
Chief Legal Officer (CLO)
P. Brahim
Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
“On behalf of the VSH United family, I wish to take this precious moment of thanking and appreciating our Customers, Partners and Shareholders for the trust in VSH, since the year 1958. ”
Patrick Healy | CEO
Supervisory Board of Directors
Supervisory Board
The Supervisory Board of Directors performed its duties in accordance with Suriname law, the Company’s bylaws and Corporate Governance Code. We advised management on relevant matters and monitored management performance in relation to goals set. Management of the Holding and the subsidiaries regularly informed us, both verbally and in writing, on policy and material aspects of business strategy, corporate planning, major events, investments and transactions.

Besides information of the company and the group as a whole, we also received a detailed monthly report from Management on the current business position of the Group’s subsidiaries while we were kept abreast of results and the financial position, risks and risk management, HR and IT performance and planning in a thorough manner. The Supervisory Board of Directors was directly involved in all decisions of fundamental importance to the Group. In addition, we discussed strategic issues with Management on a regular basis while the Chairman of the Supervisory Board and the Managing Directors maintained a constant exchange of information.
Diana R. Halfhide
Chair of the Board

Member of the Supervisory Board in 2010

COO Suriname Alcoholic Beverages N.V./Managing Director, SAB Distribution N.V. (current)

President Board Foundation Bejaardenwerk Gerardus Majella

Board member Foundation STIBEKA (Stichting Behoud Kathedraal)

Board member Suriname Arbitration Institute (SAI)

Board member Academic Hospital Suriname

Secretary Board STIVASUR (Stichting Verantwoord Alcoholgebruik Suriname)

Master’s degree in Notary Law

Post-doctoral degree in Notary Law

Master’s in Business Administration, Corporate Strategy and Economic Policy

Post-doctoral degree International & Comparative Law

Post-graduate diploma Digital Business

Robert Hahn
Vice Chair of the Board

Member of the Supervisory Board in 2010

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee

Manager Corporate ICT at Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname N.V. (current)

CEO of Datasur (2014 - 2019)

Chairman of the ICT Association in Suriname (2011 - 2018)

Board Member of the National Blood bank (2015 - 2022)

Member of the Supervisory Board of Finabank N.V. in 2021

Master’s degree in InformationTechnology

Master’s degree in Business Administration

Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

Kenneth R. Lim A Po
Board member

Member of the Supervisory Board in 2016

Member of the Remuneration & Appointment Committee

CEO of Bouwbedrijf Kiesel (current)

President of Ponderosa Equestrian Center

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration

Stephen Smit
Board member

Member of the Supervisory Board in 2017

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee

Member of the Supervisory Board of Directors of Assuria N.V., Assuria General (GY) Inc., Assuria Life (GY) Inc., Gulf Insurance Ltd. and Assuria Life (T&T) Ltd.

Member of the Supervisory Board of Directors of N.V. VSH FOODS.

Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Directors of N.V. Consolidated Industries Corporation and Torarica Holding N.V.

Member of the Social Economic Counsel (SER)

Chairman of the Board of the Stichting Nationale Volksmuziekschool

Honorary Member of the Caribbean Actuarial Association

From 1991 until retirement in 2017 served as CEO of Assuria N.V.

Master’s degree in Mathematics and Actuarial Science

Philip Fernandes
Board member

Member of the Supervisory Board in 2018

Member of the Remuneration & Appointment Committee

CEO of John Fernandes Ltd (current)

Director of Guyana Energy Support Services Ltd, John Fernandes Ltd, Bounty Farm Ltd, J.P. Santos & Co. Ltd, JPS Trading Inc., Fernandes Holdings Ltd, Fairfield Investments Ltd, Value 4 U Inc.

Chairman of Guyana Biscuit Holding Ltd

Chairman of Shipping Association of Guyana

Bachelor’s degree in Finance

Norah Beijer - de Bekker
Board member

Member of the Supervisory Board in 2021

Member of the Audit and Risk Committee

Co-owner and Commercial Director of 5TEN, LLC

Member of SEGD -The Society for Experiential Graphic Design

Member of TEA -Themed Entertainment Association

Bachelor’s degree in Marketing Communications

Corporate Governance
N.V. VERENIGDE SURINAAMSE HOLDINGMIJ./ UNITED SURINAME HOLDING COMPANY have adopted a Corporate Governance Code in January 2010. This was the outcome of an initiative by the Supervisory Board to implement a governance structure which clearly defines responsibility and authority of the supervisory and executive functions including a frame work for appraising the performance of VSH United.

The objective of the governance code is to improve the performance of the Managing Director, The Supervisory Board, and the VSH United Group as a whole. Our External auditor Lutchman & Co was contracted to guide the development of the Governance Code.
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