Appointments and re-appointments to the Supervisory Board and succession planning
Appointments and re-appointments to the Supervisory Board are made by the General Meeting
on a nomination by the Supervisory Board preceded by a recommendation of the General
Meeting, the Executive Board and the Works Council and following advice from the Central
Delegates Assembly.
In accordance with the retirement schedule, Mr A.J.A.M. Vermeer, Mrs L.O. Fresco and Mr S.L.J.
Graafsma were each due to retire by rotation as members of the Supervisory Board in 2014.
Mr Graafsma was prepared to accept a new term in office as a member of the Supervisory
Board. Having reached the maximum twelve-year term for holding office, Mr Vermeer was not
available for re-appointment. Mrs Fresco was not available for re-appointment owing to her
appointment as President of the Executive Board of Wageningen UR University with effect from
1 July 2014.
On 19 June 2014, the General Meeting of Rabobank Nederland resolved to re-appoint Mr
Graafsma as a member of the Supervisory Board of Rabobank Nederland.
The Supervisory Board wishes to express its gratitude to Mr Vermeer for the significant role he
played for Rabobank as a very valuable and highly skilled ambassador for cooperative
entrepreneurship and the agricultural sector. In addition, Mr Vermeer, as a particularly talented
and committed director made an exceptional contribution over a period of many decades to
the growth and prosperity of Rabobank, both at local Rabobanks and Rabobank Nederland.
Our gratitude is also due to Mrs Fresco. During a period of eight years, her ample supervisory
and management experience proved to be very valuable. Partly in her role as a member of the
Cooperative Affairs Committee, Mrs Fresco made a major contribution in areas including the
development of the Food Agri Principles and the food agri strategy. The Supervisory Board
wishes to express its gratitude to Mrs Fresco for her very valuable contribution to the
performance of the Supervisory Board in the past few years.
In 2014, the Supervisory Board updated the succession plan for the Board. This plan describes
the policy the Supervisory Board aims to be guided by in determining the current and future
composition of the Supervisory Board. The areas of knowledge and experience and other
qualities and competences that are considered to be necessary to operate optimally as a
collective Supervisory Board will be assessed at the time of each appointment or reappointment.
With the retirement in 2013 of Mr Koopmans, MrTielen and Mr de Bruijn and in 2014 and of Mrs
Fresco and MrVermeer in 2014, the number of members of the Supervisory Board with
knowledge in the field of the cooperative has fallen sharply. Therefore the Supervisory Board
gave priority in 2014 to filling the vacancy for a member of the Supervisory Board with a
cooperative background, combined with experience of operating in a complex social
environment.To that end, the Supervisory Board resolved to nominate Mr A.A.J.M. (Arian) Kamp
for appointment as a member of the Supervisory Board of Rabobank Nederland. Mr Kamp has
already been actively involved in the Rabobank organisation for fourteen years as a local
director and supervisor. With his previous positions as a member of Supervisory Boards of local
Rabobanks, but also as local committee leader and member of the Central Delegates Assembly,
he has a solid grounding in the world of banking. Owing to his cooperative mindset and his
wide experience within the Rabobank organisation, Mr Kamp has exactly the right profile to
operate on the axis Rabobank Nederland - local Rabobanks and to constructively combine the
interests of the local Rabobanks with those of Rabobank Group as a whole. At an additional
General Meeting on 3 December 2014, Mr Kamp was appointed as a member of the
Supervisory Board of Rabobank Nederland.
Report of the Supervisory Board of Rabobank Nederland
