Dow Coating Materials appoints
Michael Lewis west coast sales manager
Dow Coating Materials (DCM) has appointed veteran specialty chemical sales
professional Michael
Lewis to the position
of west coast sales
manager. In his new
role, Lewis is responsible for advancing all
aspects of Dow Coating Materials’ sales
operations across the
western region of North America. He joins
Dow Coating Materials with more than
twenty years of experience in specialty
chemical sales and commercial roles. He
joined the Dow Chemical Company in
1990, most recently serving as North American commercial manager for Angus Chemical. Prior to that, Lewis held progressive
positions within Dow-owned businesses,
including Anglus Chemical and Dow Biocides; Dow Performance Chemicals; and
Dow Plastic Lined Piping Products.
Michael Lewis
AkzoNobel appoints new
corporate director investor
relations
AkzoNobel has appointed Jonathan Atack
the company’s new corporate director Investor Relations. Atack was until recently
chief financial officer
at ING Investment
Management in the
Netherlands. He has
held several roles
within ING since
2004 including positions in investor relations as well as
finance and risk management. Prior to his
time at ING, he worked in investor relations at easyJet, Royal Bank of Scotland
and Six Continents.
Jonathan Atack
Watson Standard makes new
appointments
Watson Standard has named Cynthia
Blomquist its environmental, health and
safety manager. Blomquist’s previous
employers include P3Pro, Premier Environmental Services and AECOM. She is
responsible for ensuring Watson’s compliance with federal, state and local environmental, health and safety
requirements and management of all related programs.
In its manufacturing division, Watson
Standard appointed Wesley Horton assistant director of manufacturing and
Richard Newman process and maintenance engineer.
Horton’s previous experience includes
professional managerial roles with other
ISO 9001 certified companies. Prior to
joining Watson Standard Company, he
served as vice president of manufacturing
for a powder metal manufacturer.
Newman will be responsible for com-pany-wide engineering processes and
maintenance for all Watson Standard locations. His background includes extensive engineering, batch operation, process
control and plant maintenance experience
in the chemical industry.
Nubiola USA adds to
sales team
Nubiola has named Jeff Cayce technical
sales manager, coatings. He will be responsible for promotion and sales of
Nubiola’s ultramarine pigments, iron
oxides, zinc ferrites, chrome oxide
greens, chrome yellows, molybdate oranges, bismuth vanadate and corrosion
inhibitors for the North American coatings market. Cayce will be supported by
Nathan Karszes, technical and quality
manager, and Rebecca Daley, technical
service chemist, from the Nubiola North
American technical center in Norcross,
GA. In addition, Cayce will be supported by Fabiana Requeijo, global marketing manager, coatings and Ricard
March, global R&D manager from the
corporate headquarters in Barcelona,
Spain. Cayce has 11 years of experience
in the coatings industry. He has served
as a process development chemist; tech-
nical service chemist; global key account
manager; director of sales and marketing for the automotive coatings market;
and North American market manager
for an adhesives and specialty polymers
company.
Van Beek named general
manager Dow Coating
Materials EMEA Region
Dow Coating Materials has named
Anton Van Beek general manager for the
Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA)
region. Van Beek succeeds Martin Sutcliffe who, after more than two and a
half years in the role, is moving to Dow’s
Corporate Commercial Organization.
Prior to his present role, Van Beek was
general manager of Dow’s Packaging
and Converting business in EMEA. Previously, he was business manager for
Performance Monomers Europe and
India, Middle-East & Africa at Dow,
after serving as European general manager, Primary Materials at the former
Rohm and Haas company, which Dow
acquired in 2009. His broad commercial
background includes serving as marketing director for Adhesives & Sealants
Europe as well as commercial manager
for the Pressure Sensitive & Construction Chemicals market. Before joining
Rohm and Haas, Van Beek spent nine
years at BASF in various marketing and
sales management roles.
IPPIC elects Bill McPherson as
new president
The International Paint and Printing Ink
Council (IPPIC) elected its new president, Bill McPherson, recently retired
president of the International Paint division of AkzoNobel. The president of
IPPIC serves a two-year term, acts as the
chairman of the meetings and is a recently retired executive from the industry. McPherson succeeds Ed Donnelly,
retired senior vice president of DuPont
Performance Coatings, who served as
