Kees van Dijkhuizen follows ABN Amro ceo Gerrit Zalm on – NU.nl

That leaves ABN Amro Tuesday know.

Once the supervisors accept the appointment, resigns From Dijkhuizen as ceo of the bank. That lasts until mid-February next year.

Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem (Finance) had an important advisory powers in the appointment because the State is 70 percent shareholder of the bank.

Van Dijkhuizen will especially interfere with the process of ABN Amro further to the stock exchange to bring it in november last year began. It is intended that the state-owned bank, ultimately, is fully privatised.

Excellent banker

Dijsselbloem calls Van Dijkhuizen an “excellent banker and a good director with a strong social antenna.”

According to the minister, played the new chief executive within the bank, “a leading role in the ipo, and he was closely involved in the cost reduction within the bank and with the strategy for the future”. He is going to ABN Amro “now to the following stage lead, in which the State will continue to reduce the size of the share in the bank.”

Olga Zoutendijk, chairman of the supervisory board, calls Van Dijkhuizen very suited for the job because of his experience, combined with his personal integrity and leadership style and its extensive network.

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Van Dijkhuizen came in 2013, worked at ABN Amro as a financial executive. He had the same function with the Dutch bank NIBC. He also had various positions at the ministries of Finance and Economic Affairs. Between 2000 and 2005, he was treasurer general of one of the main advisors of the minister of Finance.

He was reportedly a long time candidate to Nout Wellink as president of The Nederlandsche Bank (DNB). That role eventually went to Klaas Knot.

Salmon came in 2009 at the ABN Amro in service when the concern is still fully state-controlled hands. After the nationalization at the end of 2008, Salmon, among others, the integration of the nationalised parts of Fortis and ABN Amro and the offering of the new bank.

Actually, it would be Salmon, which in the nineties minister was in the cabinets Kok I and Kok II, to may 2018 the bank, but in september it was announced that he would previously stop.

By: NU.nl/ANP