153 0 Kommentare Appointments to Arkema’s Board of Directors and Changes in Corporate Governance - Seite 3

Subject to her appointment by the Annual General Meeting, the Board of Directors has decided to appoint Ilse Henne as a member of the Audit and Accounts committee.

Ilse Henne, born in 1972 in Ghent, Belgium, holds several advanced business management degrees from the Universities of Ghent and Leuven, Belgium, as well as a master’s degree in linguistics and literature, also from the University of Ghent. She is currently a member of the Executive committee of the thyssenkrupp Materials Services segment as its Chief Transformation Officer. She is responsible for the Group’s operating result and strategic transformation since 2019. She speaks five languages fluently, including French, and has been living in Germany since 2012.

Ilse Henne began her career in 1995 at Sadel NV, a Belgian group specializing in stainless steel products, where she worked in various positions in business development, sales and supply chain management until 2002. She then joined the Materials division of thyssenkrupp Group, which is specialized in the distribution of steel and non-ferrous metals in Belgium. Between 2012 and 2018, she held various management positions in Germany. First as head of the Materials Western Europe/Asia-Pacific operating unit, and between 2016 and 2018 as the CEO of thyssenkrupp Schulte.

Innovation and Sustainable Growth committee

At the same meeting, the Board of Directors also decided to create a new committee, the Innovation and Sustainable Growth committee tasked with assessing the contribution of Arkema’s innovation and strategy to environmental challenges and sustainable growth. Together with the Audit and Accounts committee and the Nominating, Compensation and Corporate Governance committee, this new committee will help perform a comprehensive review of the Group’s ESG and non-financial challenges. The Board decided to appoint Victoire de Margerie to chair this committee after the Annual General Meeting of 20 May 2021.

All changes in governance decided by the Board of Directors will be detailed in the 2020 Universal Registration Document, which is due to be posted online on 26 March 2021.

Building on its unique set of expertise in materials science, Arkema offers a portfolio of first-class technologies to address ever-growing demand for new and sustainable materials. With the ambition to become in 2024 a pure player in Specialty Materials, the Group is structured into 3 complementary, resilient and highly innovative segments dedicated to Specialty Materials -Adhesive solutions, Advanced Materials, and Coating Solutions- accounting for some 80% of Group sales, and a well-positioned and competitive Intermediates segment. Arkema offers cutting-edge technological solutions to meet the challenges of, among other things, new energies, access to water, recycling, urbanization and mobility, and fosters a permanent dialogue with all its stakeholders. The Group reported sales of €8.7 billion in 2019, and operates in some 55 countries with 20,500 employees worldwide. www.arkema.com