Chain Reaction 2030
Avantium: experienced leadership team
Proven track record of technological and operational excellence
Management Team
Today's
presenters
Tom van Aken
CEO
(@Avantium since 2002)
Gert-Jan
Gruter
CTO
(@Avantium since
2000)
Education:
Economics (Amsterdam) and
Chemistry (Utrecht)
Selected previous other positions:
Now: several advisory
positions, such as Top Team
Chemie
1999-2002: Director Business
development at DSM
Education:
Law (Leiden) and MBA (Boston)
Selected previous / other positions:
Now: Supervisory Board
Sanquin
2012-2019: CFO at Centrient
Pharmaceuticals
2003-2012: CFO at DSM
Resins
2002-2003: CFO at Kiadis
Pharma
1997-1999: Sales manager at
Bart Welten
CFO
DSM
(@Avantium since 2020)
Carmen
Portocarero
Bas Blom
Managing Director
General
Renewable
Counsel
Polymers
(@Avantium since
(@Avantium since 2021)
2012)
Avantium | Investor Presentation H2 2021
Eelco Blum
Managing Director
Renewable
Chemistries a.i.
(@Avantium since 2017)
Steven Olivier
Managing
Director
Catalysis
(@Avantium since 2015)
Supervisory Board
Edwin Moses, Chairman
Margret Kleinsman
Michelle Jou
Cynthia Arnold
Trudy Schoolenberg
Nils Björkman (nominee)
Former CEO Ablynx NV and Oxford Asymmetry International
CFO Agrifirm
President Covestro Polycarbonates Business
Former CTO Sun Chemical and Valspar
Held various senior management positions at Shell and AkzoNobel
Worked for 33 years in various senior management positions at Tetra Pak Group
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