Rabobank Nederland intends to appoint J.A.M. (Hans) van der Linden (57) as chairman of the Board of Directors of Rabo Real Estate Group, effective 1 February 2009. The appointment is subject to the approval of the Dutch financial regulators and the advice of the works council.
Van der Linden (1951) studied economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Brabant and has been with Rabo Nederland since 1975. For twenty years he has held various executive positions within the banking segment that focuses on business owners and companies. In the past ten years, he consecutively held the positions of Director of Risk Management Associated Banks and Director of Audit at Rabobank Group.
Van der Linden is a very experienced executive who easily relates to entrepreneurs and knows how to bind people. His specific experience includes setting up and growing organisations and managing integration programmes. This is why Rabobank considers Van der Linden to be the right man to further shape the mutual cooperation within Rabo Real Estate Group and with Rabobank Group. “Rabo Real Estate Group is a beautiful company with good results. In its current set-up, it’s a young company. I consider it a compelling challenge to keep this ship on course when the outside world is changing greatly.”, says Van der Linden.
The appointment of Van der Linden will fill a vacancy that was created when T.B. (Tjalling) Halbertsma left the company. As from February 2009, P.C. (Peter) Keur, the acting chairman, will once again focus entirely on managing FGH Bank N.V.. In addition, he will become deputy chairman of the Board of Directors, which further consists of Jos van Lange, Walter de Boer, Isaäc Kalisvaart and Jean Klijnen.
J.C. (Hans) ten Cate will retire as chairman of the Supervisory Board of Rabo Real Estate Group, effective 1 December 2008. After Halbertsma’s departure, finding a new chairman for the Board of Directors was an important duty, which has been brought to completion with the appointment of the new chairman. Ten Cate’s departure is furthermore related to his membership of the supervisory board of TBI Holdings B.V., where he is the intended chairman of that board as per April 2009.
Ten Cate will be succeeded as chairman of the Supervisory Board by L.C. (Elco) Brinkman, who has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Rabo Real Estate Group since 2006. Consequently, the Supervisory Board of Rabo Real Estate Group will be comprised of Mr Brinkman, Mr Schat and Mr Van Zadelhoff.