Geert Van De Laar

Geert van de Laar (1959) is the CEO of the Facilicom Group. At the University of Applied Sciences for Hospitality Education in Maastricht, Geert van de Laar studied Institutional Management. In 1981, he started his career with the Hodon Group, as management trainee Cleaning. For three years, he was responsible for a number of major cleaning projects in Amsterdam.

In 1984, he became head of Civil Matters at the Bergweg hospital in Rotterdam. As client, he was responsible for the outsourcing of cleaning and security, and the privatisation of the hospital laundry services. In 1989, he made the switch to the Facilicom Group.

Until 1995, he was district director in the district of South Netherlands, responsible for all of the company’s services in that area. In 1996, Geert van de Laar was appointed operational director at the head office in Schiedam. Subsequently, he became general manager of the cleaning services division in the Netherlands. In 2005, he switched to Trigion, where he worked as a general manager until his switch to the Facilicom Group Management Board in 2011.

Geert van de Laar has been CEO of the Facilicom Group since 01 July 2016. Geert van de Laar is in a relationship and lives in Zwijndrecht.