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JOCHEN SCHMITZ Head of International Fleet, Volkswagen Financial Services
DR. JÖRG LÖFFLER CEO, Fleet Logistics
In November last year, Jochen Schmitz took over the international fleet business from Knut Krösche, who will henceforth concentrate his efforts on large customer accounts in the German market.
As the new CEO of Fleet Logistics, the main priority of Dr. Jörg Löffler is to further the group's internationalisation, as well as expand business operations to include new services.
Schmitz is an economist with a degree from the University of Koblenz. Not yet 40, he can already look back on a long and distinguished career in the fleet management and automotive industries. After various positions at independent fleet management companies, Schmitz in 2010 joined the Volkswagen Group, as Head of Product Management and Head of Retail Marketing for SEAT Germany.
Under the leadership of his predecessor, Rainer Laber, the TÜV Süd subsidiary became Europe's largest independent fleet management services provider. That dovetails with Dr. Löffler's own experience. As former Vice President Corporate Development at Knorr Bremse AG, he is a recognised authority in international business development.
In 2012, Schmitz joined Volkswagen Financial Services, where he took responsibility of the International Implementation Management and Consulting division. From 2014 until October last year, he headed CarMobility Fleet Management, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Leasing in Germany.
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Apart from that, he has a broad technical experience, having studied Aerospace Engineering at the Universities of Stuttgart and Toulouse and Business Management at RWTH Aachen University. He was Global Vice President Product Group Efficiency Technologies at Webasto SE, Director Business Automotive at Infineon Technologies AG and Project Manager at Roland Berger & Partner GmbH.
VINCENT PEETERS CEO, Business Lease
Following in the footsteps of Harm Nijlunsing, who led Business Lease for 11 years, Vincent Peeters has a clear vision of where to go next: “We’ve been too modest: we are more versatile than most people, also internally, realise”. Vincent Peeters has extensive experience in the B2B sector and has been Managing Director at Business Lease Netherlands since 2015, will focus on the fast expansion of the Group's innovative services. He aims to leverage the group's strengths in the Netherlands and Eastern Europe to grow to the next level. “We have a well-oiled sales engine for our local and international clients in Central and Eastern Europe. If we further improve on that, I see us moving beyond 50,000 vehicles this year. We also want our Dutch organisation to take the final steps to becoming a mobility consultancy”, says Vincent Peeters.
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