Netherlands-based asset finance provider DLL has appointed three members to its executive board to take their positions 1st January 2017.

The current board position chief finance and risk officer will be split into chief financial officer and chief risk officer, as former chief finance and risk officer Frans Overdijk will return to Rabobank, DLL’s parent company.

Marc Dierckx will become DLL chief financial officer, while Ab Gillhaus will take the role of chief risk officer, and Tom Meredith has been appointed chief commercial officer.

Dierckx joined DLL in 2004, and has served as president of the office technology global business unit, and deputy chief financial officer, where he spearheaded the sale of Athlon to Daimler Financial Services.

Gillhaus will return DLL from Rabobank having led its European vendor finance division from 2000 to 2003, and currently serves as Rabobank’s chief credit officer.

Meredith has over 35 years’ experience in leasing, and joined DLL in 2010 as president of the global food and agriculture business unit.

Bill Stephenson, chief executive officer and chairman of the executive board at DLL, said: “As we head into 2017 with a highly qualified and committed leadership team…I am more confident than ever about the future of our organisation.”