Wilhelmus Gerardus Stephanus Maria "Wim" van der Leegte (born August 1947) is a Dutch

billionaire A billionaire is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e., a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually of a major currency such as the United States dollar, euro, or pound sterling. The American busin ...

, and runs the Netherlands-based VDL Groep.

Career

VDL Groep, one of Europe's largest privately held car and bus makers, was founded in 1953 by his father Pieter van der Leegte, when it started making parts for trucking companies. In January 2016 VDL announced that van der Leegte would be step down in November, after 50 years as president.

Personal life

Van der Leegte is married with three children and lives in

Eindhoven Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022, His three children: Pieter, Jennifer and Willem, are all members of the executive board, and own shares in the company.

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