Arkema has appointed a new executive committee.
Takeaway Points
- Arkema Appoints New Executive Committee.
- Sophie Fouillat has been appointed as the group’s Executive Vice-President, Strategy, effective 1 Oct, 2024.
- Tilo Quink, who has joined the group, will take up the post of Senior Vice President Performance Additives from 1st Sep 2024.
Arkema New Executive Committee
Arkema, a leader in specialty materials, said on Thursday that Sophie Fouillat has been appointed as the group’s Executive Vice-President, Strategy, effective 1st Oct 2024; she will be replacing Bernard Boyer, who is retiring.
Tilo Quink, who has joined the group, will take up the post of Senior Vice President Performance Additives from 1st Sep 2024, a position formerly held by Laurent Tellier; Laurent Tellier, a member of the Executive Committee and currently Senior Vice President Performance Additives, has been appointed Senior Vice President High Performance Polymers and Fluorogases effective 1st September 2024, replacing Erwoan Pezron. Erwoan Pezron becomes advisor to the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer while remaining a member of the Executive Committee until his retirement at the end of the year, the company said.
Thierry Le Hénaff, Arkema’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, stated: “I would like to thank Bernard Boyer for his great contribution to the development of the Group since its creation. His strategic foresight, his unique knowledge of the chemical sector and his common sense have been invaluable assets in Arkema’s transformation. I also take this opportunity to thank Erwoan Pezron for his technical leadership and his commitment to our customers, and for his contribution to the growth of the activities he has run within Arkema.”
About the Executives
Sophie Fouillat joined Arkema at its creation in 2006 to head Investor Relations, then Financial Communication, and finally Strategic Planning. Since 2022, she was Strategy and M&A Director at Bostik. A graduate of HEC Paris, Sophie Fouillat began her career at Total in the Tax Consolidation and, later, International Taxation departments, the company said.
Arkema said that Tilo Quink has over 20 years’ experience in industry in various general business management functions in China and Germany. Since 2019, he was Global Director of Henkel’s Packaging Adhesives, Coatings & Sealants business. He began his career at Thyssenkrupp, where he notably held the position of Managing Director China, and in 2018, he joined Henkel as Corporate VP Consumer Goods & Packaging Adhesives Europe.
According to the report, Laurent Tellier also has over 20 years’ experience in industry and international business, particularly in the 3 major regions in which Arkema operates (Asia, the Americas, and Europe). Since 2023, he was Senior Vice President Performance Additives. A graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École des Ponts Paris Tech, Laurent Tellier worked at Saint-Gobain for 20 years before joining Group.
Lead by Thierry Le Hénaff, Arkema’s Executive Committee will comprise:
Marc Schuller, Chief Operating Officer, Coating Solutions, Intermediates, and Advanced Materials; Marie-José Donsion, Chief Financial Officer; Sophie Fouillat, Executive Vice-President, Strategy; Luc Benoit-Cattin, Executive Vice President, Industry and CSR; Richard Jenkins, Senior Vice President Coating Solutions; Vincent Legros, Executive Vice President Adhesive Solutions (Bostik); Thierry Parmentier, Executive Vice President Human Resources and Corporate Communication; Tilo Quink, Senior Vice President Performance Additives; and Laurent Tellier, Senior Vice President High Performance Polymers and Fluorogases.
About Arkema
Arkema is a leader in Specialty Materials. Building on its unique set of expertise in materials science, Arkema designs materials to address the ever-growing demand for innovative and sustainable materials, driven by the challenges of new energies, new technologies, the depletion of resources, mobility, and increasing urbanization. The Group is structured into three coherent and complementary segments dedicated to Specialty Materials (Adhesive Solutions, Advancedmaterialss, and Coating Solutions) accounting for 92% of its sales, and an Intermediates segment leveraging competitive and global product lines. Sustained by the collective energy of its 21,100 employees, Arkema operates in some 55 countries and reports sales of €9.5 billion.
