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Laurent Lenoir
CEO
Laurent Lenoir graduated in France with a degree in life sciences engineering (École Nationale Supérieure d’Agronomie de Montpellier). He started his career with Taminco in 1991 as Technical & Sales Manager Agrochemicals before holding various positions in Belgium within the Crop Protection business unit. In 2000, Laurent became Business Manager Methylamines & Derivatives Asia. Following the spin off of Taminco from UCB in 2003, Laurent became Director Asia & Global Director Feed Additives, following which he became Integration Officer relating to the Air Products acquisition in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States (between 2006‑2007). From 2007 to December 31, 2009, he was Group Vice‑President BU Methylamines & Derivatives – Regional President Asia. Since January 1, 2010, he has been our CEO.
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Kurt Decat
Chief Financial Officer (Finance, HR, Legal, Corporate Secretary and Investor Relations)
Kurt Decat studied Applied Economics and holds a masters degree in business administration from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. He joined Taminco in 2003 as CFO, after a career of 15 years in financial management and business management at several multinational companies, including PwC, FedEx, Minit International, Domo and Corus.
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Johan De Saegher
Head of Agro Sciences Division (Regional Latin‑America/Asia)
Johan De Saegher holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Universiteit Gent and started his career as process engineer with Taminco in 1994. In 1998, he became responsible for the global engineering for the methylamines department. He was promoted to Site and Plant Manager of Leuna in 2000. After the spin‑off of Taminco from UCB, he became responsible for Taminco’s global manufacturing operations. In 2005, he became responsible for the Crop Business Unit, which was extended to Life Sciences including Feed Additives as Group Vice‑President Life Sciences and Regional President Latin America. Since 2009 he has been leading the Agro Science Division (Regional Latin America/Asia) business unit.
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Geoff Ingham
Head of Functional Chemicals Division (Regional NAFTA)
Geoff Ingham earned a bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. He held a number of sales positions before joining Air Products Canada as a sales representative in 1980. Over the next 15 years he advanced from Sales to Sales Management to General Management of Canadian operations. In 1996, he became Vice President of Air Products Joint Venture, San Fu Chemical Co. in Taipei, Taiwan. After four years he became Vice President of North Asia responsible for Korea, Japan and Taiwan before moving to the United States to become Business Director Amines and then Group Vice‑President Higher Amines and Regional President NAFTA in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States. Since October 1, 2006 he has been leading the Functional Chemicals Division (Regional NAFTA) business unit.
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Guy Wouters
Head of Global Supply Chain & Purchasing & ICT
Guy Wouters joined Taminco in 1984 and holds a degree in Commercial Engineering from I.C.H.E.C. Brussels. He started his career at VEL, an affiliate of UCB, as warehouse manager and joined UCB in 1990 as Product Manager in the Mineral Division, before becoming Sales and Marketing Manager of UCB’s Plasticizers division. When this division was sold to Euroftal (SISAS group), he switched to the Methylamines division as Sales and Marketing Manager. He became Global Business Manager MA, Solvents and WTS in 1999 and was also responsible for the Supply Chain and Procurement beginning in 2003. Since January 2007, he has been leading the Global Supply Chain & Purchasing & ICT business unit.
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Piet Vanneste
Head of Global Manufacturing, R&T & M&A
Piet Vanneste holds a Master Degree in Chemical Engineering from Universiteit Gent. He started his career at BASF as process engineer and production engineer in the Nitric Acid Production Unites. In 1990, he joined UCB as project and process engineer for several projects. In 1996 he became marketing development manager for the methylamines and derivatives business unit before becoming Director R&T and Business Development in 2002. Since 2004, he has been leading the Global Manufacturing, R&T and M&A business unit.
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