Tijmen MEKEL
Director Business Development & ICT
Athlon Car Lease
Tijmen Mekel is the Director Business Development & ICT at Athlon Car Lease, an international provider of operational car leasing, active in seven European countries and headquartered in the Netherlands. Athlon Car Lease International forms part of De Lage Landen International, which is a subsidiary of the Rabobank Group. Rabobank is a global player founded on cooperative principles and backed by an AAA credit rating.
For more than a decade Athlon Car Lease uses Uniface to build their business critical applications. Athlon's core leasing application, ATLAS, and the e-business application Athlonline is a Uniface and workflow based ERP-solution. These applications proved to be flexible enough to enable the growth of the company including a number of mergers and acquisitions. The time to market for new or improved functionality, using Uniface with its model driven approach, well supports our changing business needs. Uniface will stay at the heart of our application portfolio, along side other technologies like Oracle, Java, Tibco and Business Objects. Web based implementations and integration of technologies tops our IT agenda.
Tijmen graduated from the Tilburg University in 1986 and joined Athlon in 2001 after a series of consulting and project management roles for automotive, IT and government companies.