Professional in international chemical industry with 25+ years of experience in Industrial Catalysis across various functional areas. Strong analytical, conceptual and strategic skills with specific expertise in: - New business development including industrial / academic alliance formation - Business management and Strategy development incl. M&A - Business processes (innovation, stage-gates, portfolio mngt, alliances, strategic tools, M&A) - Innovation management (general R&D, breakthrough research, ideation) - Organizational change and leadership development - Broad Catalysts knowledge - Technical Sales / product management - E-business / CRM

Business Development Director @ Business Development Director The Strategy and Corporate Development Group drives the strategic process at corporate and GBU level within Albemarle corporation through new business development and M&A (corporate development). This corporate group has a company-wide view From April 2012 to Present (3 years 9 months) R&D Director @ Responsible for R&D at Albemarle Amsterdam site (an organization of 70 -120 people) serving Hydroprocessing catalysts, Alternative Fuel Technologies, Polymer Solutions and Fine Chemistry business; Development of new cooperation agreements in Asia, South America and USA in the field of HPC and biomass conversion processes. Involvement in various alliances with industrial and academic partners. From December 2009 to April 2012 (2 years 5 months) Global Business Director HPC at Albemarle Catalysts @ Global business responsibility for Distillate and VGO Hydroprocessing Catalysts including financial forecasting, supply and operational planning, pricing, strategic product development, product portfolio management From June 2008 to December 2009 (1 year 7 months) R&D mngr Hydroprocessing Catalysts @ R&D mngr Hydroprocessing Catalysts (organization of about 50 people) Responsibility for High Throughput (HTE) Experimentation, product development and scale-up, customer services, catalyst testing, application knowledge development. R&D - alignment with JV partner Nippon Ketjen From July 2006 to July 2008 (2 years 1 month) R&D mngr Business Development Group @ R&D mngt for Business Development Group - Amsterdam (about 25 people including Research, Scale-up, and Testing / QC) involved in Chemical Catalysts, Gas to Liquids (GTL), Coal to Liquids (CTL). R&D group for GTL and development of application knowledge for AlkyStar alkylation technology. ad interim: Market development GTL (Gas To Liquids / Coal To Liquids) catalysts. Started cooperation with large industrial partner and managed several existing partnerships with industry / academia From March 2003 to July 2006 (3 years 5 months) E-business manager @ Development of e-Business strategy for business unit and company. Member of Decagon. Design and implementation of Siebel CRM system; e-procurement. Refinery Solutions website. Training sales force worldwide From January 2001 to March 2003 (2 years 3 months) Technical Sales manager Isomerization Catalysts @ Market development of new product and technology; sales and technical support (unit start-up in refineries and after sales) of paraffin isomerization catalysts. Q1 2000 - Q4 2000: member of the Akzo Nobel decagon group - corporate group for development of E-business strategy From January 1997 to January 2001 (4 years 1 month) Section Head Hydroprocessing Catalysts @ R&D position in HPC Catalysts; Resid conversion (E-bed), development of small scale catalyst testing units for rapid evaluation. Technology transfer from JV partner Nippon Ketjen; several patent applications From March 1993 to January 1997 (3 years 11 months)

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Catalysis @ Utrecht University From 1988 to 1992 Master's Degree, Chemistry @ Utrecht University From 1983 to 1988 Gymnasium @ Vossiusgymnasium From 1977 to 1983 Nellestein - Abcoude From 1971 to 1977