Arkema Coating Resins, a business unit of Arkema, has named Eric Kaiser general manager and Eric
Dumain the new commercial director for
North America.
As the new general manager for North
America, a wholly new position within
the business, Kaiser will oversee all manufacturing and commercial operations, as
well as growth opportunities for Arkema
Coating Resins in the region.
Dumain will assume Kaiser’s previous
position as commercial director, where he
will be responsible for all North American
marketing and sales efforts.
Kaiser has been with the team currently comprising Arkema Coating
Resins since 1988, filling multiple roles
with Union Carbide, Dow Chemical and
Arkema. When Arkema acquired the
business assets in 2010, he assumed the
role of global marketing director and
later transitioned to business director for
the Americas.
Dumain has been with Arkema for five
years, serving as the global business development manager. He has more than 20
years of experience in the coatings industry and came to Arkema after positions
with Reichhold and Cook Composites
and Polymers.
Sartomer Americas
Appoints Senior Account
Manager
Sartomer, a business unit of Arkema Inc.,
has named Jeff Prosser senior account
manager for Texas and the southeast U.S.
In his new role, Prosser will help educate
and connect customers in his region with
innovative specialty chemical solutions
that best serve their coatings, adhesives,
inks, elastomers, and other formulation
needs. He will report to Chris Petrangeli,
Americas sales director.
Prosser joins Sartomer with thirty
years of sales and marketing manage-
ment experience with product lines of
monomers, polymers, SAPs, dispersants,
Since 2012, Prosser has managed com-
modity and specialty chemical product
sales as a global key account manager
for BASF. Prior to that, he was a North
America marketing manager for BASF.
Prosser has also held various sales and
account management positions with com-
panies such as Ciba Specialty Chemicals,
Allied Colloids, CPS Chemical Group,
Rhodia Corporation, and Bayer
Corporation.
Oxea Names Salim Al
Huthaili New CEO
Oxea has appointed Dr. Salim Al Huthaili
the new chief executive officer of the company. With the decision of the Board of
Oxea Sàrl to implement a new management structure with a CEO, Al Huthaili
took over this new role in Oxea’s management organization. Dr. Martina Flöel,
who has so far served as the speaker of
the prior executive board of three managing directors, will leave the company. Al
Huthaili first joined Oxea in early 2015
as chairman of the Supervisory Board,
and then later became a member of the
Oxea executive board with increasing
responsibilities.
Fernando Espinosa Sr.
Promoted to President of
Andes Chemical Corp.
Andes Chemical Corporation has promoted Fernando J. Espinosa to president of Andes Chemical Corp. He has
been a key component of the operation
for nearly 15 years in various capacities.
Andes Chemical is an innovative solutions and logistic provider of specialty
chemicals into the Caribbean Central
and South America.
Brian Pryor Joins The
Chidley & Peto Company
Brian Pryor has joined The Chidley &
Peto Company as an account executive.
Pryor will be responsible for customers
in the inks, coatings, adhesives, and plastics industries located in Illinois, Kansas,
and Missouri. Pryor has more than 30
years in the ink industry, with over twenty years at Sun Chemical and five years
at Siegwerk. His background includes
chemistry, technical account manager and
technical sales.
DuluxGroup Appoints New
Director
DuluxGroup has announced the appointment of Graeme Liebelt as a nonexecutive director. Liebelt has significant
board experience including 19 years on
ASX listed company boards, and substantial non-listed and not-for-profit
board activity. He is currently chairman
of Amcor Ltd. and a director of ANZ
Banking Group Ltd. and The Australian
Foundation Investment Company Ltd.
(AFIC).
Liebelt also has more than 30 years’
experience in senior leadership roles
across a breadth of industries in Australia
and overseas, including managing
Director and CEO of ASX listed Orica
Limited from 2005 until 2012. He also
held senior roles at DuluxGroup between
1989 and 1997, including managing director from 1995 until 1997.
D.B. Becker Continues to
Expand U.S. Reach
D.B. Becker, a Maroon Group LLC
Company, continues to expand its U.S.
reach with the addition of Josh Fink as an
account manger to cover Southern New
Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania.
Fink has been in the chemical industry
for nine years with the Sherwin-Williams
Company in which he was a three-time
recipient of the President’s Club Honors.
During his time with Sherwin-Williams,
he held positions in operations, marketing, and, most recently, sales. CW
Arkema Coating Resins Promotes
Two to North American Leadership Roles
