BASF Appoints New Executive Board Member

Posted by |16 December 2011

Ludwigshafen, Germany – Wayne T. Smith was appointed to BASF’s Board of Executive Directors, effective at the end of its annual meeting on April 27, 2012.

Smith, an American, is currently head of BASF’s polyurethanes division headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. He takes the place of Dr. Stefan Marcinowski who will retire after 15 years on the board.
At the same time, BASF’s Supervisory Board has extended the appointment of Research Executive Director Dr. Andreas Kreimeyer until the end of the Annual Meeting in May 2015. He has been a member of the Board of Executive Directors since 2003, according to BASF.

Following these changes, the Board of Executive Directors has decided to reassign the responsibilities of Ressort VI and VII effective at the end of the Annual Meeting.

Wayne Smith will take over responsibility for Ressort VI, previously headed by Andreas Kreimeyer, and be responsible for Inorganics, Petrochemicals, Intermediates and Process Research & Chemical Engineering.

Andreas Kreimeyer remains research executive director and will take over responsibility for Ressort VII, previously headed by Stefan Marcinowski. He will be responsible for Crop Protection, Coatings, South America, Biological & Effect Systems Research, Plant Science and BASF Future Business.