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AkzoNobel broadens its leadership team
AkzoNobel has broadened its leadership team. A nine-person executive
committee has been established comprised of the current board of management members including Hans Wijers,
CEO; Keith Nichols, CFO; Leif Darner,
performance coatings; Tex Gunning,
decorative paints and Rob Frohn, specialty chemicals and four new leaders.
Joining AkzoNobel to form part of the
new executive committee is Marjan
Oudeman. Once named one of the Wall
Street Journal’s “Women to Watch in
Europe,” Oudeman previously worked
for Tata Steel Limited, where she was
divisional director for strip products.
She will be responsible for human
resources and organizational development. Also joining the new leadership
team will be Graeme Armstrong,
responsible for research, development
and innovation; Sven Dumoulin, general counsel and Werner Fuhrmann,
supply chain/sourcing.
AkzoNobel also made a number of
business unit changes. Richard Stuckes,
currently managing director of
Decorative Paints UK, Ireland and
South Africa, will be appointed manag-
ing director AkzoNobel Decorative
Paints Europe. He will run the entire
AkzoNobel Decorative Paints business
in Europe. Frank Sherman, currently
managing director of Surface Chemistry,
will focus on his role as country director
for AkzoNobel in North America, based
in Chicago. Sherman has been instru-
mental in setting up the North
American leadership team and will con-
tinue full-time in that role. On April 1,
2011, after leading Surface Chemistry
through a restructuring for more than
seven years, he will step down from the
managing director role. Bob Margevich,
currently managing director of
Functional Chemicals based in
Amersfoort, the Netherlands, will be
appointed managing director of Surface
Chemistry, based in Chicago. After three
years in Functional Chemicals,
Margevich will return to the U.S. to lead
Surface Chemistry effective April 1. Jan
Svärd will be appointed managing direc-
tor of Functional Chemicals, effective
March 1, based in Amersfoort, the
Netherlands. Svärd is currently manag-
ing the Pulp and Paper Chemicals busi-
ness. Ruud Joosten, currently managing
director of Decorative Paints Northern
and Eastern Europe, will be appointed
managing director of Pulp and Paper
Chemicals effective February 1, based in
Gothenburg. Knut Schwalenberg will be
appointed managing director of
Industrial Chemicals, effective Jan. 1,
based in Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
He will succeed Werner Fuhrmann.
Peter Tomlinson, currently director
EMEA at Marine and Protective
Coatings, will become regional director
AkzoNobel Middle East, effective Oct. 1,
initially in parallel to his current role.
DUPONT’S MAKES KEY
LEADERSHIP CHANGES
DuPont recently
named Terry
Caloghiris president
– strategic initiatives and John
McCool president –
Performance Coatings. Caloghiris currently is president
of Performance
Coatings. During his
31-year career with
DuPont, he has held
a range of senior
leadership roles
around the world in
business management, sales, marketing, technical and
operations. McCool
currently serves as
Terry Caloghiris
John McCool
vice president of Performance Coatings
for the company’s Europe-Middle East-Africa (EMEA) region. He has served in
several leadership positions since joining
DuPont in 1976.
BASF NAMES TWO TO BOARD
OF EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
The Supervisory Board of BASF has
named Margret Suckale and Michael
Heinz to the Board of Executive
Directors of BASF. Suckale will
become industrial relations director
and head of Ressort II, and Heinz will
take over as head of Ressort IV.
Effective at the same time, Hans-Ulrich Engel will become chief financial officer and will be responsible for
Ressort III. He will be located in the
U.S. Harald Schwager will succeed
Engel as head of Ressort V. As previously announced, Kurt Bock will succeed Jürgen Hambrecht as chairman
of the Board of Executive Directors.
Hambrecht and John Feldmann, member of the Board, are retiring at the
end of the Annual Meeting in 2011.
NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
ELECTS VERGANO TO BOARD
DuPont executive vice president Mark
Vergnano recently was elected to the
position of vice chairman of the Board
of Directors (BOD)for the National
Safety Council (NSC). DuPont has
been a member of the NSC since 1914.
Vergano has been a member of the
BOD since 2006.
HALL TECHNOLOGIES HIRES
TECHNICAL SALES REPRESENTATIVE
Richard Keeler has joined Hall
Technologies Inc. as a technical sales
representative. Keeler is based in the
company’s Houston sales office. In his
new position he is responsible for sales
and service to customers in southern
Texas and Louisiana. CW
