In her new role, Susan Sutton will work closely with ChemQuest leadership to develop and communicate business strategy initiatives. The group says her key efforts will focus on media relations and content development, website enhancement, corporate branding, event planning, project management, and development support for market intelligence tools such as the Coatings TraQr™ interactive dashboard and forecasting platform.
Matthew Gardner will oversee finance, accounting, treasury, information technology, and business intelligence for the enterprise, including providing guidance to, and ensuring alignment between, FLEXcon’s executive leadership team, board members, and family shareholders.
AkzoNobel will nominate – subject to shareholder approval – Ben Noteboom as a member of the supervisory board at the Annual General Meeting being held in April 2023. The board intends to subsequently elect him as chair, succeeding Nils Andersen, who will retire as chair and member of the board at the same time.
Admix Inc. has appointed Jesper Sæderup Lindeløv to the position of managing director of Admix Europe ApS, located in Fredensborg, Denmark. Lindeløv will replace Knud Erik Juhl Jensen, who is taking on a new role to lead the operations and engineering teams in Fredensborg.
INX announced the retirement of John Hrdlick as president and CEO, effective April 30, 2023. At that time, Bryce Kristo will be promoted and serve as the new president and CEO. The two will work together the next several months to ensure a smooth transition.
Philip Clark, the company’s new senior vice president and chief technology officer, is responsible for the company’s global technology and innovation strategies in alignment with its sustainability and growth targets. He also serves as the business leader that builds research capabilities in support of the company’s strategic direction.
Sheboygan Paint Company appointed Paul Krueger as president and CEO, effective January 3, 2023. Krueger brings 35 years of industrial coatings experience to his new role. Peter Kirton, current president and CEO, will retire at the end of 2022.
The new managing director for the Renewable Chemistries business unit will become a member of the Avantium Management Team, and help further drive the commercialization of Avantium’s renewable chemistry technologies including Ray Technology™ for the production of plantMEG™ and plantMPG™.
Arxada announced the appointment of Peter Frauenknecht as chief financial officer (CFO). Frauenknecht joins Arxada from specialty chemicals technology company Atotech Group, where he has been CFO since 2017.