De Lage Landen Financial Services names
Laura Blessing Director, Channel Sales for its Tech Finance SBU

WAYNE, Pa., Oct. 28, 2002 - De Lage Landen Financial Services, a leading international provider of high-quality asset-based financing products to manufacturers and distributors of capital goods, has named Laura Blessing as Director of Channel Sales for its Technology Finance Strategic Business Unit. 

In this capacity, Blessing, of Haddonfield, NJ, will manage the inside sales and field sales teams for the business unit, which serves the VAR channel within the technology industry.

She will report directly to William Nasri, Vice President, Sales & New Business Development for the Technology Finance SBU. 

Prior to joining De Lage Landen, Blessing served as Technology Market Director for CIT's North American Office Technology Finance unit in Jacksonville, FL. 

She has more than 17 years of leasing industry experience, including collections, credit, financial analysis, sales, sales support and marketing. 

Blessing is a 1979 graduate of Nebraska Wesleyan University with a B.S. degree in Business Administration. 

De Lage Landen Financial Services is part of De Lage Landen International B.V., an international provider of high-quality asset-based financing products. The company, headquartered in Eindhoven (The Netherlands), is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dutch Rabobank Group. Credit ratings of the major international ratings agencies show that Rabobank is the most creditworthy privately held bank in the world. 

With offices and joint ventures in 20 countries throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia and New Zealand, De Lage Landen specialises in asset financing and vendor finance programmes internationally, with a focus on the following industries: Agriculture and Food, Healthcare, IT, Materials Handling and Construction, Office Equipment, Telecom, Transport and Bank Outsourcing. Domestically, the company concentrates on a broad range of leasing and trade finance products. 

In 2001 De Lage Landen grew its net profit to EUR 92.2 million (US$ 82.4 million) and its balance sheet to EUR 10.6 billion (US$ 9.4 billion) in assets. 

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