Daan van der Vorm steps down as director of VORM Holding

Daily management remains in hands of current board led by CEO Hans Meurs

• VORM Holding grown seven times larger under Daan van der Vorm and CEO Hans Meurs
• Daan van der Vorm, who remains a shareholder, will devote more time to his other businesses and functions and to his family
• Geert Hoek joins alongside Hans Meurs as statutory director
• Board duties transferred to current board and executive team effective July 15

Daan van der Vorm (1963) has announced that he will step down as a director of VORM Holding as of July 15. The day-to-day management of the Rotterdam-based construction project developer will remain with the current board and management. Daan van der Vorm remains the sole shareholder of VORM Holding. Hans Meurs, CEO since 2003, and his team will ensure the continuity of the course set. Geert Hoek (CFO) will also join the board. VORM Holding recorded a turnover of €520 million in 2021 and has around 400 employees.  

Daan van der Vorm took over the construction activities of the family business VORM (then called Van der Vorm) from his father Daan Sr. (1926 - 2019) in 2003. In the same year, Daan appointed Hans Meurs as CEO. In 2019, VORM celebrated its centennial and Daan van der Vorm was elected "Real Estate Man of the Year.

Daan: "I had already made the decision to take a step back for myself several years ago well before my retirement. I want to reserve more time for the other positions I hold besides VORM Holding. The positive developments of the past few years within VORM and the confidence in Hans, with whom I have developed the company over the past 20 years, and his partly new management team, make this a good time. Together with the recent appointment of the Supervisory Board, this ensures that the continuity and direction of the company is in good hands."

A social mission

VORM's organizational mission is a social mission: to improve livability in Dutch neighborhoods, accelerate the construction of affordable housing and make real estate more sustainable. Among other things, VORM invests in social and sector-wide initiatives that stimulate innovation and digital acceleration in the real estate sector.

William van Niekerk, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of VORM: "We fully respect Daan's decision and as Supervisory Board look forward to continuing our working relationship with him as an entrepreneurial shareholder. Under Daan and Hans, the company has grown more than seven times. There is a solid management, strategy and organization in place and the company is financially healthy. We are going to support Daan, Hans and the management team in their desire to grow the company further, responsibly and with an eye for its social role: to accelerate the construction of affordable housing and to actively contribute to improving the quality of life in neighborhoods." 

In addition to being a shareholder of VORM Holding, Daan will invest more time in his family and his other activities, including his investment company, directorships, real estate portfolio.