
Sjef van Dooremalen joined the Dutch dredging and shipbuilding group Royal IHC in 1971. He was its president-director from 1985 to 2006 and president-commissioner from 2006 to 2013. He also chaired the Holland Shipbuilding Association and was a former chairman of Netherlands Maritime Technology (NMT). He died in 2018.
He spoke as a panellist at the 11th (2011) and 12th (2012) Mare Forum Ship Finance and at the 2nd European Maritime Research and Innovation Policy Conference.