Belgian student housing specialist Xior has announced the hire of Dutch national Marieke Bax to support the company’s growth in the Dutch market.

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Bax, who is currently director and chairman of the audit committee at InPost, will help the company in ‘strengthening the feel’ with the Dutch market, which represents more than 50% of the portfolio.

Bax has held management positions at companies including Sara Lee, Hot-Orange and Gooseberry and has been a consultant at KPMG and Deloitte. She has experience with directorships in various sectors and was a member of the supervisory board of VastNed Retail, a listed European property company specialised in retail property and with assets in the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Spain, for 8 years.

She currently holds mandates also at Vion Food (member of the supervisory board and chairman of the audit committee), and Frontier Economics (director and chairman of the nomination committee).