Marc Dierckx Appointed Global Business Unit President Office Equipment
De Lage Landen International B.V., a global provider of high-quality asset-based financing products to manufacturers and distributors of capital goods, announced the appointment of Marc Dierckx as Global Business Unit President of the De Lage Landen office equipment group. He succeeds William F. Stephenson who has recently been appointed Global Chief Commercial Officer for De Lage Landen International, B.V. and consequently joined the company’s Executive Board.
In his new role, Dierckx will be responsible for the overall global business of De Lage Landen’s vendor finance activities in the office equipment industry. “I am proud to have been given the confidence of the board to take on this role”, Dierckx comments. “De Lage Landen has over 30 years of experience in the office equipment environment. The company once started as a local provider. Since then it has grown into a global player to be reckoned with. Further building on this accomplishment and extending our position as a best in class business partner of office equipment manufacturers and distributors is a challenge I am eager to address together with my management team and all members of our global office equipment team.”
Prior to joining De Lage Landen in 2004, Dierckx gathered extensive industry experience holding several senior management positions within Lanier Europe Finance. During his last three years at Lanier, he co-managed the transition of Lanier Europe into the Ricoh Group, a global leader in digital office solutions. Dierckx holds master’s degrees from the EHSAL University in Brussels in both accounting & tax and completed the senior management program at Vlerick Business School.
De Lage Landen is a global provider of high-quality asset-based financing products. The company, headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dutch Rabobank Group, which is triple-A rated by the major rating agencies Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s.
With offices and joint ventures in more than 30 countries worldwide, De Lage Landen specializes in asset financing and vendor finance programs on a worldwide scale. The global offering also includes an array of commercial finance solutions. The company focuses on the following industries: food and agriculture, healthcare, office equipment, technology, financial institutions, transportation and materials handling and construction. De Lage Landen also offers private-label leasing programs for the banking industry, and delivers a broad range of financial services to leasing organizations and non-banking financial institutions.
In the Netherlands, De Lage Landen offers a broad range of financing products through local Rabobanks and directly to the market. These products include equipment leasing, car and commercial vehicle leasing, ICT leasing, consumer finance and trade finance.
Athlon Car Lease International became part of De Lage Landen Group in 2006. Athlon Car Lease International is active in six European countries and is an international provider of operational car leasing.
In 2007 De Lage Landen grew its net profit to €234 million ($321 million) and its lease portfolio to €20.7 billion ($30.5 billion). By year-end 2007, De Lage Landen had 4,735 employees.
