At this week’s Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), shareholders of Akzo Nobel N.V. (AkzoNobel), Amsterdam, the Netherlands, appointed new CEO Thierry Vanlancker as a member of the AkzoNobel Board of Management. Vanlancker had been appointed CEO by the AkzoNobel Supervisory Board on July 19, 2017. He succeeded Ton Büchner, who left AkzoNobel in July this year.

 

Antony Burgmans, chairman of the AkzoNobel Supervisory Board, said that "Thierry is an outstanding executive who is well placed to take AkzoNobel forward. This includes the creation of two focused businesses, delivering sustainable growth and profitability."

 

Before taking up the role of CEO, Thierry was head of Specialty Chemicals at AkzoNobel, having joined the company in 2016. Prior to joining AkzoNobel, he was President of Fluoroproducts for Chemours, the spin-off company of DuPont's chemical businesses formed in 2015.