Bart Beckers, age 57, has been the Chief Commercial Officer of Arval since 2013 and reports directly into the CEO, as a member of the Executive Committee. He oversees all commercial operations across the group and is also the sponsor of the Element Arval Global Alliance. Besides sales, he supervises the remarketing, consulting and insurance activities across the Arval entities.
He holds a Master degree in languages from Marie Haps in Brussels, as well as a Master in International Business from the VLEKHO (now KU Leuven) in Brussels.
Bart started his career in the UK working for the Belgian airline Sabena, then entered the automotive sector when taking up the role of sales & marketing director at Hertz RAC Belux in 1993. Subsequently, he spent a number of years at LeasePlan in various country management roles, to then join Arval in 2011 as the managing director for the UK, where he led a company transformation between 2011 and 2013.