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Jun 30, 2003

Profile: Peter Paul de Vries

A shareholder with a cause

Some people think he's a showboat. He sometimes speaks for hours at shareholder meetings, grilling executives on what seem to be nitpicking points. More than one CEO has tried to shut him up only to be forced to relent after shareholders revolted. If there is a corporate scandal in the Netherlands, Peter Paul de Vries will be in the middle of it, fighting for the rights of investors.As director of the Hague-based shareholder lobby group, the VEB (Veregniging van Effectenbezitters), De Vries has been

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