Leaseurope has appointed Leon Dhaene as director general effective 1 December 2015, succeeding Tanguy van de Werve, who left to join AFME, the Association for Financial Markets in Europe.
Dhaene, a Belgian national, has over 25 years of financial services experience, including leadership roles in large companies, such as IBM and Mastercard International.
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Dhaene founded several new companies, delivering strategic consulting (Network of Alliances, Outsourcing and Mergers Experts – Naome), consulting services (Chairman of N2finance), legal services and innovation solutions (fraud detection and management systems) to the payments industry, and has advised regulators and multiple associations at European level in the past.
He currently sits as an independent expert on the payment systems market expert group of the European Commission Directorate General Internal Market and Services.
Dhaene will also become director general of Eurofinas, which represents specialised consumer credit providers at European level, with whom Leaseurope has a special partnership.
"I take great satisfaction in knowing that Leaseurope is in the hands of such a talented executive," said Enrico Duranti, Leaseurope’s chairman.
"Leon’s expertise and vision will contribute significantly to Leaseurope continuing to provide leading edge, quality services to our memberships and to represent our industry at European and international level."
Duranti added: "Leon is a vital addition to the team as we navigate through an evolving and expanding regulatory and supervisory environment."
Director general Dhaene said: "I am very excited to join Leaseurope. The Federation has served this industry for a long time and I see a lot of potential going forward. We have a great team supported by an impressive number of Member Associations across Europe and a strong Board of Directors and I look forward to being part of that success in the years to come."
