Hooghoudt will remain shareholder of the company and stay actively involved as an advisor to the Management Team of Ioniqa.
Since Hooghoudt founded Ioniqa in 2009, he has fostered the development of Ioniqa’s catalytic upcycling technology – Denua™️. Hooghoudt has steered the evolution of Ioniqa’s technology from lab scale to building of the company’s industrial demo plant in the Netherlands. Under his leadership Ioniqa has partnered with value chain companies such as Coca-Cola, Indorama Ventures and Unilever. Most recently, Ioniqa entered into a strategic partnership with Koch Technology Solutions to license Ioniqa’s technology to the market, branded as Denua™️.
‘The past 15 years have been amazing in both the challenges that the team has faced and in the way they resolved them. As a result, Ioniqa is now leading the pack globally to resolve one of the biggest challenges we face on the planet: plastic waste. Ioniqa is a unique company, making plastics sustainable with its circular technology. I congratulate Michiel Hoogendijk with his CEO appointment and remain confident Ioniqa will be successful in coming years’ – Tonnis Hooghoudt, Ioniqa’s founder.
Succeeding Hooghoudt as Ioniqa’s CEO is Michiel Hoogendijk. With a background in business development and transformation, Hoogendijk will drive further growth of Ioniqa and the commercialisation of Denua™️. Hoogendijk is a business leader with a track record of delivering results and responsible for driving growth in chemical companies such as AkzoNobel and Avery Dennison. In order to ensure a smooth transition Hooghoudt will remain in an advisory role providing support to his successor.
