Heike van de Kerkhof
The board of directors of specialty chemicals company Archroma appoints Heike van de Kerkhof to succeed current CEO Alexander Wessels effective January 6, 2020. Wessels has held the CEO position at Archroma since the company was established in October 2013 and will become vice chairman of the company’s board of directors. He will also take on a senior advisory role within SK Capital working across its portfolio of investments, which includes Archroma.
van de Kerkhof joins Archroma from Castrol, the lubricant division of BP plc, where she was vice president, western hemisphere. Prior to BP, she held a variety of business leadership, commercial and operations roles at DuPont and The Chemours Company in a career spanning almost thirty years. She also served as a non-executive director at Neste Oil.
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