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Avantium nominates Dirk Van Meirvenne and Peter Williams for its Supervisory Board

1:20 min Management
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Avantium announces the nomination of Dirk Van Meirvenne and Peter Williams for appointment to its Supervisory Board. The Supervisory Board will propose the appointments to the Annual General Meeting on 10 May 2023.

Dirk Van Meirvenne, a Belgian national, serves as Head of the Advanced Industrial Intermediates business unit at Lanxess, a global specialty chemicals company in Cologne, Germany. Prior to this, he served in various senior management positions in R&D and technology at Bayer, in both Europe and Asia. Dirk has extensive manufacturing, operations, CAPEX project management and general management experience. He obtained a PhD in polymer chemistry from the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Peter Williams, a British national, serves as Group Technology Director and Head Of Investor Relations at global chemical company INEOS. Prior to this, he held various other senior R&D and technology leadership roles at INEOS, including being Chief Executive Officer of INEOS Technologies. Before joining INEOS, Peter worked for BP in the UK. He currently also serves as a non-executive director at hydrogen vehicle developer First Hydrogen and as non-executive director for V-Carbon. Peter Williams brings extensive experience of catalysis and technology licensing, as well as technology development and innovation in the chemicals and renewables industries. He obtained a PhD in Chemistry from the University of York, UK.

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Edwin Moses, Chairman of Avantium’s Supervisory Board commented: “We are delighted to nominate Dirk Van Meirvenne and Peter Williams for appointment to the Supervisory Board. They bring a wealth of international industry expertise in scaling-up and commercialising chemical technologies. We believe these new additions will further strengthen the Board’s ability to support Avantium in the delivery of its ambitious business plans.”

www.avantium.com

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